FEB

February Birthdays

2/2–Judith Viorst
2/4–Russell Hoban (1925-2011)
2/5–David Wiesner
2/7–Shonto Begay
2/8–Anne Rockwell
2/10–Aliki and Stephen Gammell
2/11–Jane Yolen
2/12–David Small
2/13–Simms Taback (1932-2011)
2/13–Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
2/14–George Shannon
2/14–Paul O. Zelinsky
2/15–Norman Bridwell
2/16–Nancy Ekholm Burkert
2/17–Michael McCurdy
2/18–Barbara Joosse
2/19–Louis Slobodkin (1903-1975)
2/21–Jim Aylesworth
2/27–Florence Perry Heide (1919-2011)
2/27–Uri Shulevitz

MAR

March Birthdays

3/2–Leo Dillon (1933-2012)
3/2–Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
3/3–Erik Blegvad (1923-2014)
3/5–Mem Fox
3/5–Dav Pilkey
3/5–Errol LeCain
3/6–Chris Raschka
3/6–Thacher Hurd
3/8–Robert Sabuda
3/8–Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
3/8–Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2004)
3/10–Jack Kent (1920–1985)
3/11–Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983)
3/11–Wanda Gag (1893-1946)
3/13–Diane Dillon
3/17–Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
3/17–Wendell Minor
3/20–Mitsumasa Anno
3/21–Margaret Mahy (1936-2012)
3/22–Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)
3/26–Jerry Pallotta
3/28–Doreen Cronin
3/28–Byrd Baylor
3/31–Beni Montresor (1926-2001)

APR

April Birthdays

4/1–Jan Wahl
4/2–Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
4/2–Ethan Long
4/4–Glen Rounds
4/8–Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2004)
4/10–David A. Adler
4/10–Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970)
4/13–Jan Berenstain
4/16–Garth Williams (1912-1996)
4/22–Eileen Christelow
4/22–Kurt Wiese
4/22–Eileen Christelow
4/24–Evaline Ness
4/27–Ludwig Bemelmans
4/27–John Burningham
4/29–Nicole Rubel
4/29–Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965-2017)

MAY

May Birthdays

5/1–Robert Bender
5/2–Mary Quattlebaum
5/3–Mavis Jukes
5/4–Doug Cushman
5/4–Don Wood
5/5–Leo Lionni (1910-1999)
5/5–Giulio Maestro
5/5–J. Patrick Lewis
5/6–Malcolm Bosse
5/6–Judy Delton
5/6–Randall Jarrell
5/6–Ted Lewin
5/6–Barbara McClintock
5/7–Nonny Hogrogian
5/9–William Pene DuBois
5/10–Bruce McMillan
5/11–Peter Sis
5/11–Juanita Havill
5/12–Betsy Lewin
5/13–Bernadette Watts
5/15–Kadir Nelson
5/16–Caroline Arnold
5/16–Deborah Nourse Lattimore
5/16–Margaret Rey
5/17–Eloise Greenfield
5/17–Jeanne Lee
5/18–Colin McNaughton
5/18–Lillian Hoban
5/19–Arthur Dorros
5/19–Tom Feelings
5/19–Elise Primavera
5/20–Caralyn Buehner
5/21–Erica Silverman
5/22–Arnold Lobel (1933-1987)
5/23–Peter Parnall
5/23–Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)
5/24–Diane de Groat
5/25–Martha Alexander
5/25–Barbara Bottner
5/25–Joyce Carol Thomas
5/26–Sheila Greenwald
5/26–Lizbeth Zwerger
5/28–Debby Atwell
5/29–Andrew Clements
5/31–Will Hillenbrand

JUN

June Birthdays

6/1–James Daugherty (1889-1974)
6/2–Paul Galdone (1907-1986)
6/2–Helen Oxenbury
6/2–Anita Lobel
6/5–Richard Scarry
6/6–Verna Aardema
6/6–Peter Spier
6/6–Cynthia Rylant
6/7–Nikki Giovanni
6/8–Rachel Bright
6/10–Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
6/11–Robert Munsch
6/14–Janice Udry (1928-)
6/18–Pat Hutchins (1942-2017)
6/18–Chris Van Allsburg
6/21–Robert Kraus (1925-2001)
6/24–Jean Marzollo
6/24–Leonard Everett Fisher
6/25–Eric Carle
6/26–Lynd Ward (1905-1985)
6/26–Nancy Willard
6/27–Charlotte Zolotow (1915-)
6/30–David McPhail

JUL

July Birthdays

7/1–Emily Arnold McCully
7/2–Jack Gantos
7/7–Wendy Watson
7/10–Martin Provensen (1916-1987)
7/11–Patricia Polacco
7/11–James Stevenson
7/13–Marcia Brown
7/14–Peggy Parish
7/16–Eve Titus (1922-2002)
7/16–Arnold Adoff
7/17–Karla Kuskin
7/19–Eve Merriam (1916-1992)
7/22–Catherien Storr
7/23–Robert Quakenbush
7/23–Patricia Coombs
7/25–Ruth Krauss (1901-1993)
7/28–Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

AUG

August Birthdays

8/3–Mary Calhoun
8/5–Robert Bright
8/5–Maud Petersham
8/6–Barbara Cooney
8/5–Patricia McKissack (1944-2017)
8/9–Jose Aruego (1932-2012)
8/10–Margot Tomes
8/11–Don Freeman (1908-1778)
8/14–Alice Provensen
8/15–Brinton Turkle
8/15–Walter Crane (1845-1915)
8/16–Beatrice de Regniers (1914-2000)
8/17–Ariane Dewey
8/17–Myra Cohn Livingston
8/18–Louise Fatio (1904-1993)
8/23–Mac Barnett
8/25–Lane Smith
8/28–Roger Duvoisin (1904-1980)
8/28–Arlene Mosel (1921-1996)
8/28–Brian Pinkney
8/28–Allen Say
8/28–Tasha Tudor (1915-2008)
8/30–Laurent de Brunhoff
8/30–Virgina Lee Burton (1909-1968)
8/30–Donald Crews
8/30–Sesyle Joslin

SEP

September Birthdays

9/3–Aliki Brandenberg
9/4–Syd Hoff (1912-2004)
9/5–Paul Fleischman (1952-)
9/8–Jack Prelutsky (1940-)
9/8–Jon Scieszka
9/8–Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
9/11–Anthony Browne (1946-)
9/13–Else Holmelund Minarik (1920-2012)
9/14–Edith Thacher Hurd (1910-1997)
9/14–John Steptoe (1950-1989)
9/15–Robert McCloskey (1914-2003)
9/15–Tomie dePaola (1934-)
9/19–Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
9/21–Taro Yashima (1908–1994)
9/22–Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002)
9/23–Jan Ormerod (1946-2013)
9/24–L(eonard) Leslie Brooke (1862-1940)
9/25–Andrea Davis Pinkney
9/27–Paul Goble (1933-2017)
9/27–Bernard Waber (1921-2013)
9/27–George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
9/29–Dorothy Kunhardt (1901-1927)
9/30–Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1898-1986)
9/30–Alvin Tresselt (1916-2000)

OCT

October Birthdays

10/4–Robert Lawson (1892-1957)
10/5–Gene Zion
10/6–Crockett Johnson (1906-1975)
10/7–Susan Jeffers
10/10–James Marshall (1942–1992)
10/10–Robert San Souci (1946–2014)
10/14–Lois Lenski (1893-1974)
10/16–Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)
10/18–Nancy Parker Winslow
10/19–Ed Emberley
10/20–Crockett Johnson (1906-1975)
10/22–Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
10/23–Marjorie Flack
10/24–Bruno Munari
10/25–Andrea Beck
10/26–Steven Kellogg

NOV

November Birthdays

11/1–Hilary Knight
11/2–Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
11/2–Jeannie Baker
11/3–Janelle Cannon
11/4–Gail E. Haley
11/5–Marcia Sewall
11/8–Marianna Mayer
11/9–Lois Ehlert
11/9–Pat Cummings
11/11–Diane Wolkstein (1943-2013)
11/12–Marjorie Sharmat
11/12–Dahlov Ipcar (1917-2017)
11/13–Jez Alborough
11/14–William Steig (1907-2003)
11/14–Nancy Tafuri
11/15–Maira Kalman
11/16–Angela Shelf Medearis
11/17–Lloyd Moss (1926-2013)
11/18–Nancy Van Laan
11/18–Miroslav Sasek (1916-1980)
11/19–Margaret Musgrove
11/19–Ann Herbert Scott
11/21–Mary Jane Auch
11/21–Leo Politi (1908-1996)
11/23–Marc Simont (1916-2013)
11/24–Gloria Houston
11/25–Marc Brown
11/25–Shirley Climo
11/25–Crescent Dragonwagon
11/25–Jim La Marche
11/27–Kevin Henkes
11/27–Katherine Milhous (1894-1977)
11/28–Stephanie Calmenson
11/28–Tomi Ungerer
11/28–Ed Young
11/29–David M. Schwartz
11/29–Jon Klassen
11/30–Margot Zemach (1931-1989)

DEC

December Birthdays

12/1–Jan Brett
12/2–David Macauley
12/4–Munro Leaf (1905-1976)
12/5–Harve Zemach (1933-1974)
12/8–Mary Azarian
12/8–James Thurber (1894-1961)
12/9–Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937)
12/10–Mercer Mayer
12/11–William Joyce
12/12–Barbara Emberley
12/13–Leonard Weisgard (1916-2000)
12/15–Henrik Drescher
12/16–Marie Hall Ets (1895-1984)
12/16–Quentin Blake
12/19–Eve Bunting
12/20–M. B. Goffstein
12/22–Jerry Pinkney
12/23–Erick Ingraham
12/24–Feodor Rojankovsky (1891-1970)
12/25–Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938)
12/25–Anna Dewdney (1965-2016)
12/26–Jean Van Leeuwen
12/27–Diane Stanley
12/27–Ted Rand
12/27–Ingri Parin d'Aulaire (1904-1980)
12/28–Janet Lunn
12/29–Molly Bang
12/29–Janet Greenberg
12/30–Mercer Mayer
12/31–Margery Cuyler
12/31–Cynthia Leitich Smith