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October Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 2 | Jennifer Owens Dewey (1941) | Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World |
| 3 | James Herriot (1916-1995) | Only One Woof |
| 4 | Don Brown (1949) | Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa |
| 4 | Karen Cushman (1941) | Catherine, Called Birdy |
| 4 | Susan Meddaugh (1944) | Martha Speaks |
| 5 | David Shannon (1959) | Duck on a Bike |
| 6 | Betsy Hearne (1942) | Seven Brave Women |
| 6 | Jeanette Winter (1933) | Cowboy Charlie: The Story of Charles M. Russell |
| 7 | Susan Jeffers (1942) | Lassie Come Home |
| 7 | Robert Westall (1929-1993) | Blitzcat |
| 8 | Joyce Hansen (1942) | I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl |
| 8 | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) | Dune Cronicles |
| 8 | Suzanne Newton (1936) | Purro and the Prattleberries |
| 8 | Faith Ringgold (1930) | Tar Beach |
| 8 | R. L. Stine (1943) | Goosebumps series |
| 9 | Johanna Hurwitz (1937) | Summer with Elisa |
| 10 | Nancy Carlson (1953) | Louanne Pig in the Talent Show |
| 10 | James Marshall (1942-1992) | The Owl and the Pussycat |
| 10 | Daniel San Souci (1948) | Red Wolf Country |
| 10 | Robert D. San Souci (1946) | The Faithful Friend |
| 11 | Russell Freedman (1929) | The Life and Death of Crazy Horse |
| 13 | Robert Ingpen (1936) | Shakespeare: His Work & His World |
| 14 | Elisa Kleven (1958) | The Puddle Pail |
| 14 | Lois Lenski (1893-1974) | Strawberry Girl |
| 15 | Barry Moser (1940) | When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends |
| 16 | Joseph Bruchac (1942) | The Winter People |
| 16 | Patrice Kindl (1951) | Goose Chase |
| 17 | Judith Caseley (1951) | Sophie and Sammy's Library Sleepover |
| 17 | Shel Silverstein (1932-1999) | The Giving Tree |
| 18 | Ed Emberley (1931) | Drummer Hoff |
| 19 | Nikki Grimes (1950) | Something on My Mind |
| 19 | Philip Pullman (1946) | The Golden Compass |
| 20 | Janet Ahlberg (1944) | The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters |
| 20 | Barbara Bash (?) | Shadows of Night: The Hidden World of a Little Brown Bat |
| 20 | John R. Erickson (1943) | Hank the Cowdog series |
| 20 | Ursula LeGuin (1929) | Earthsea Trilogy |
| 23 | Wade Hudson (1946) | How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children |
| 25 | Fred Marcellino (1939-2001) | I, Crocodile |
| 25 | Stephanie S. Tolan (1942) | Surviving the Applewhites |
| 26 | Steven Kellogg (1941) | The Missing Mitten Mystery |
| 28 | Caroline Coman (1951) | Tell Me Everything |
| 29 | Valerie Worth (1933) | Peacock and Other Poems |
| 30 | Eric A. Kimmel (1946) | Anansi and the Magic Stick |
| 31 | Helen V. Griffith (1934) | Grandaddy's Stars |
| 31 | Katherine Paterson (1932) | The Same Stuff as Stars |
| 31 | Doreen Rappaport (1939) | Martin's Big Words |
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