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November Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Hilary Knight (1926) | Eloise |
| 2 | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (1956) | As Long As There Are Mountains |
| 3 | Brent K. Ashabranner (1921) | The Lion's Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Tales |
| 3 | Janell Cannon (1957) | Crickwing |
| 3 | Betty Bao Lord (1938) | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
| 5 | Raymond Bial (1948) | With Needle and Thread: A Book about Quilts |
| 5 | Megan Lloyd (1958) | Winter Wheat |
| 5 | Marcia Sewall (1935) | Thunder from the Clear Sky |
| 5 | Margaret Willey (1950) | Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula Conte |
| 8 | Kate Needham (1962) | First Pony |
| 8 | Bram Stoker (1847-1912) | Dracula |
| 9 | Pat Cummings (1950) | Purrrrr |
| 9 | Lois Ehlert (1934) | Color Zoo |
| 10 | Sandra Lee Markle (1946) | Outside and Inside Bats |
| 13 | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) | My Shadow |
| 14 | Astrid Lindgren (1907) | Pippi Longstocking |
| 14 | William Steig (1907-2003) | Pete's a Pizza |
| 14 | Nancy Tafuri (1946) | Have You Seen My Duckling? |
| 15 | Beryl Epstein (1910) | The Great Houdini |
| 15 | Maira Kalman (1949) | Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey |
| 15 | David McCord (1897-1997) | All Small |
| 15 | Daniel Pinkwater (1941) | Mush, a Dog from Space |
| 16 | Victoria Chess (1939) | Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in Reverse (A Tale of Wickedness--and Worse!) |
| 16 | Jean Fritz (1915) | You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? |
| 16 | Ronald Himler (1937) | The Cherokees |
| 16 | Robin McKinley (1952) | The Hero and the Crown |
| 16 | Angela Shelf Medearis (1956) | Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story |
| 17 | Alison Lester (1952) | The Quicksand Pony |
| 18 | Nancy Van Laan (1939) | When Winter Comes |
| 19 | Ann Herbert Scott (1926) | On Mother's Lap |
| 21 | Megan Whalen Turner (?) | The Thief |
| 23 | Marc Simont (1915) | The Stray Dog: From a True Story by Reiko Sassa |
| 23 | Gloria Whelan (1923) | Homeless Bird |
| 24 | Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) | A Little Princess |
| 24 | Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992) | A Jar of Dreams |
| 25 | Marc Brown (1946) | Arthur Writes a Story |
| 25 | Mordici Gerstein (1935) | The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm |
| 25 | Stephen Krensky (1953) | Lionel at School |
| 26 | Laurence Pringle (1935) | Bats!: Strange and Wonderful |
| 27 | Kevin Henkes (1960) | Owen |
| 28 | Mary E. Lyons (1947) | Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies |
| 28 | Tomi Ungerer (1931) | The Three Robbers |
| 28 | Ed Young (1931) | I Wish I Were a Butterfly |
| 29 | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | Little Women |
| 29 | Madeleine L'Engle (1918) | A Wrinkle in Time |
| 29 | C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) | The Cronicles of Narnia |
| 29 | David M. Schwartz (1951) | G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book |
| 30 | Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) | Anne of Green Gables |
| 30 | Jonathon Swift (1667-1745) | Gulliver's Travels |
| 30 | Mark Twain (1835-1910) | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 30 | Margot Zemach (1931) | Some from the Moon, Some from the Sun: Poems and Songs for Everyone |
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