This year in
library the students can choose to celebrate children's authors'
birthdays. Each month, the names of the authors whose
birthdays fall in that month will be posted on the library bulletin
board and on a flyer in the library. If students read three
books by any of the month's authors, they will be invited to a
birthday party at the end of the month. There will be a form
available in the library that students can take home to record their
reading.
Mrs. Leonard
Happy Birthday, December Authors!
December 1
Jan Brett, 1949
December 2
David Macaulay, 1946
December 5
Walt Disney, 1901
Jim Kjelgaard, 1919
Harve Zemach, 1933
December 8
Padraic Colum, 1881
James Thurber, 1894
Kin Platt, 1919
December 9
Joel Chandler Harris, 1848
Jean DeBrunhoff, 1899
Elouise Jarvis McGraw, 1915
Jerome Beatty, Jr., 1918
Mary Downing Hahn, 1937
Joan Blos, 1938
December 10
George MacDonald, 1824
Emily Dickinson, 1830
Ernest Shepard, 1879
Mary Norton, 1903
December 11
William Joyce, 1957
December 14
Rosemary Sutcliff, 1920
Lorna Balian, 1929
December 16
Marie Hall Ets, 1893
Bill Brittain, 1930
Quentin Blake, 1932
December 18
Marilyn Sachs, 1927
December 19
Eve Bunting, 1928
December 20
Carol Farley, 1936
M.B. Goffstein, 1940
December 22
William O. Steele, 1917
Jerry Pinkney, 1939
December 23
Richard Kennedy, 1932
Avi, 1937
December 24
Noel Streatfield, 1920
Margaret Anderson, 1931
December 25
Eth Clifford, 1915
December 26
Jean Van Leeuwen, 1937
December 27
Ingri Parin D’Aulaire, 1904
December 28
Carol R. Brink, 1895
Emily Neville, 1919
Janet Lunn, 1928
December 29
Molly Garrett Bang, 1943
Irene Brady, 1943
December 30
Rudyard Kipling, 1865
Jane Langton, 1922
Alvin Silverstein, 1933
Mercer Mayer, 1943
Rumer Godden, 1907
