January
3 J. R.R. Tolkien
4 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5 Jack London
18 A.A Milne
19 Edgar Allan Poe
20 Tedd Arnold
26 Shannon Hale
27 Lewis Carroll
27 Julius Lester
29 Rosemary Wells
30 Lloyd Alexander
31 Denise Fleming
February
1 Jerry Spinelli
1 Meg Cabot
1 Langston Hughes
2 Judith Viorst
5 David Wiesner
7 Charles Dickens
7 Laura Ingalls Wilder
8 Anne Rockwell
10 Mark Teague
10 E. L. Konigsburg
11 Jane Yolen
11 Mo Willems
12 Judy Blume
12 David Small
12 Jacqueline Woodson
13 Simms Taback
14 Paul O. Zelinsky
15 Norman Bridwell
19 Jeff Kinney
23 Walter Wick
25 Cynthia Voigt
28 Megan McDonald
28 Lemony Snicket
March
2 Dr. Suess
3 Patricia Maclachlan
4 Dav Pilkey
4 Peggy Rathmann
5 Mem Fox
6 Chris Raschka
8 Robert Sabuda
11 Ezra Jack Keats
11 Jonathan London
12 Carl Hiaasen
12 Virgina Hamilton
13 Ellen Raskin
16 Sid Fleischman
17 Wendall Minor
20 Louis Lowry
20 Louis Sachar
21 Lisa Desimini
25 Kate Dicamillo
25 Linda Sue Park
26 Robert Frost
26 Jerry Pallotta
27 Dick King-Smith
28 Doreen Cronin
April
2 Hans Christian Andersen
5 Anthony Horowitz
9 Margaret Peterson
Haddix
10 Richard Peck
10 David A. Adler
12 Beverly Cleary
13 Lee Bennett Hopkins
14 Gary D. Schmidt
21 Barbara Park
22 Eileen Christelow
23 William Shakespeare
26 Patricia Reilly Giff
28 Harper Lee
April
29 Ron Roy
May
4 Don Wood
5Leo Lionni
5Scott Westerfeld
10 Christopher Paul Curtis
11 Peter Sis
11 Mike Lupica
12 Blue Balliett
14 Eoin Colfer
15 Kadir Nelson
15 Paul Zindel
17 Gary Paulsen
18 Debbie Dadey
20 Mary Pope Osborne
22Arnold Lobel
23 Margaret Wise Brown
29 Andrew Clements
June
5 Rick Riordan
5 Richard Scarry
6 Cynthia Rylant
10 Maurice Sendak
11 Robert Munsch
14 Bruce Degen
15 Brian Jacques
18 Chris Van Allsburg
24 Kathryn Lasky
24 Jean Marzollo
25 Eric Carle
30 David McPhail
July
2 Jack Gantos
2 Jean Craighead George
11 Patricia Polacco
11 E.B. White
14 Laura Numeroff
14 Peggy Parish
14 Brian Selznick
15 Clement C. Moore
July
15 Marcia Thornton Jones
18 Felicia Bond
26 Jan Berenstain
28 Natalie Babbitt
29 Sharon Creech
30 Marcus Pfister
31 J.K. Rowling
August
1 Gail Gibbons
1Bill Wallace
2James Howe
6 Frank Asch
6 Barbara Cooney
7 Betsy Byars
9 Patricia C. Mckissack
9 Seymour Simon
10 Suzanne Collins
11 Joanna Cole
11 Don Freeman
12 Ann M. Martin
12 Fredrick Mckissack
12 Walter Dean Myers
16 Matt Christopher
18 Paula Danziger
19 Jared Lee
20 Jeff Brown
20 Judy Schachner
21 Sharon Draper
23 Melvin Berger
25 Ian Falconer
25 Lane Smith
25 Virginia Euwer Wolff
27 Suzy Kline
27 Ann Rinaldi
28 Kevin Hawkes
28 J. Brian Pinkney
29 Karen Hesse
30 Donald Crews
September
1 Jim Arnosky
2 Ellen Stoll Walsh
3 Syd Hoff
4 Paul Fleischman
8 Jon Scieszka
8 Jack Prelutsky
13 Ronald Dahl
13 Mildred D. Taylor
14 William H. Armstrong
15 Tomie DePaola
15 Robert McCloskey
16 H.A. Rey
17 Gail Carson Levine
18 H.G. Wells
21 Hans Wilhelm
24 Jim Henson
24 Wilson Rawls
25 Andrea Davis Pinkney
25 Shel Silverstein
26 Johnny Appleseed
29 Stan Berenstain
30 Elie Wiesel
October
1 Julie (Andrews) Edwards
4 Donald J. Sobol
5 David Shannon
8 Faith Ringgold
8 R.L. Stine
8 Mike Thaler
10 James Marshall
11 Russell Freedman
16 Joseph Bruchac
19 Ed Emberley
19 Dan Gutman
19 Philip Pullman
20 Nikki Grimes
23 Laurie Halse Anderson
23 Gordon Korman
25 Stephanie Tolan
26 Steven Kellogg
30 Henry Winkler
31 Katherine Paterson
November
2 Alyssa Satin Capucilli
9 Lois Ehlert
11 Peg Kehret
12 Marjorie W. Sharmat
12 Neal Shusterman
17 Christopher Paolini
20 Marion Dane Bauer
22 Jamie Lee Curtis
25 Marc Brown
26 Charles M. Schulz
27 Kevin Henkes
29 C.S. Lewis
29 Madeleine L’engle
30 Roland Smith
30 Mark Twian
December
1 Jan Brett
10 Cornelia Punke
19 Eve Bunting
23 Audrey Wood
24 Sharon G. Flake
24 Stephenie Meyer
24 Lynn Munsinger
25 Pan Munozryan
30 Mercer Mayer
30 Jane O’Connor