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September Author & Illustrator Birthdays |
| Date | Authors & Illustrators | Have You Read...? See Note 1 |
| 1 | Jim Arnosky (1946) | Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Butterflies & Moths |
| 1 | Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) | Tarzan series |
| 2 | John Bierhorst (1936) | Spirit Child: A Story of the Nativity |
| 2 | Demi (1942) | The Dalai Lama: A Biography of the Tibetan Spiritual and Political Leader |
| 2 | Eugene Field (1850-1895) | Wynken, Blynken and Nod |
| 2 | Bernard Most (1937) | Pets in Trumpets: And Other Word-Play Riddles |
| 2 | Ellen Stoll Walsh (1942) | Mouse Paint |
| 3 | Aliki (1929) | Wild and Woolly Mammoths |
| 3 | Alison Lurie (1926) | Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales |
| 4 | Joan Aiken (1924) | Necklace of Raindrops |
| 4 | Syd Hoff (1912) | Duncan the Dancing Duck |
| 5 | Paul Fleischman (1952) | Weslandia |
| 5 | Roxie Munro (1945) | Feathers, Flaps, & Flops: Fabulous Early Fliers |
| 6 | Margery Facklam (1927) | Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars |
| 7 | Alexandra Day (1941) | Carl's Birthday |
| 8 | Byron Barton (1930) | Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones |
| 8 | Michael Hague (1948) | The Man Who Kept House |
| 8 | Jack Prelutsky (1940) | Scranimals |
| 8 | Jon Scieszka (1954) | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs |
| 8 | Jan Romero Stevens (1953) | Carlos and the Carnival/Carlos y la feria |
| 8 | Eugene Trivizas (1946) | The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig |
| 9 | Eloise McGraw (1915-2000) | The Moorchild |
| 9 | Mildred Pitts Walter (1922) | My Mama Needs Me |
| 10 | Babette Cole (1949) | Prince Cinders |
| 10 | Betty Levin (1927) | Shadow-Catcher |
| 10 | Robert McClung (1916) | The True Adventures of Grizzly Adams: A Biography |
| 11 | Anthony Browne (1946) | My Dad |
| 13 | Roald Dahl (1916-1990) | The BFG |
| 13 | Mildred D. Taylor (1943) | The Land |
| 14 | Diane Goode (1949) | The House Gobbaleen |
| 14 | Edith Thacher Hurd (1916-1997) | Johnny Lion's Rubber Boots |
| 14 | Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) | Make Way for Ducklings |
| 14 | Holly Meade (1956) | Small Green Snake |
| 14 | John Steptoe (1950) | The Story of Jumping Mouse |
| 14 | Elizabeth Winthrop (1948) | Dumpy La Rue |
| 15 | Tomie dePaola (1934) | 26 Fairmount Avenue |
| 16 | H. A. Rey (1898-1977) | Curious George |
| 16 | Joanne Ryder (1946) | Little Panda: The World Welcomes Hua Mei at the San Diego Zoo |
| 17 | Paul Goble (1933) | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
| 17 | Gail Carson Levine (1947) | Ella Enchanted |
| 17 | Zena Sutherland (1915) | The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes |
| 19 | Rachel Field (1894-1942) | Hitty: Her First Hundred Years |
| 19 | James Haskins (1941?) | Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World |
| 19 | Arthur Rackman (1867-1939) | Aesop's Fables |
| 20 | Arthur Geisert (1941) | Oink |
| 20 | Michael J. Rosen (1954) | Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas |
| 22 | Olivier Dunrea (1953) | Gossie |
| 23 | Bruce Brooks (1950) | Everywhere |
| 23 | Jan Ormerod (1946) | Goodbye Mousie |
| 25 | Jim Murphy (1947) | The Great Fire |
| 25 | Andrea Davis Pinkney (1963) | Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters |
| 25 | James E. Ransome (1961) | Satchel Paige |
| 25 | Anne Shelby (1948) | Homeplace |
| 27 | G. Brian Karas (1957) | The Seals on the Bus |
| 27 | S. D. Schindler (1952) | The Cod's Tale |
| 27 | Bernard Waber (1924) | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile |
| 29 | Marissa Moss (1959) | G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book |
| 30 | Carol Fenner (1929) | Yolonda's Genius |
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