January 3: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
January 5: Lynne Cherry (The Great Kapok Tree)
January 6: Carl Sandburg
January 12: Jack London (The Call of the Wild)
January 13: Sharon Robinson (Jackie’s Nine)
January 14: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Shiloh)
January 18: A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
January 19: Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)
January 22: Rafe Martin (Birdwing)
January 27: Lewis Caroll (Alice in Wonderland)
January 30: Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron)
February 1: Langston Hughes (various poems)
February 1: Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee)
February 1: Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries)
February 2: Judith Viorst (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)
February 7: Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Little House on the Prairie)
February 7: Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
February 10: Mark Teague (Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School)
February 10: E. L. Konigsburg (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler )
February 11: Mo Willems (Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!)
February 12: Judy Blume (Superfudge)
February 15: Norman Bridwell (Clifford)
February 28: Megan McDonald (Judy Moody)
March 2: Dr. Seuss
March 2: Leo Dillon (Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears)
March 3: Patricia MacLachlan (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
March 4: Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants)
March 5: Mem Fox
March 5: Howard Pyle (Robin Hood)
March 8: Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows)
March 11: Ezra Jack Keats (The Snowy Day)
March 12: Virginia Hamilton (The House of Dies Drear)
March 12: Carl Hiaasen (Hoot)
March 16: Sid Fleischman (Whipping Boy)
March 20: Louis Sachar (Holes)
March 20: Lois Lowry (Number the Stars )
March 26: Robert Frost (“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”)
March 27: Dick King-Smith (Babe, The Gallant Pig)
April 2: Hans Christian Andersen
April 3: Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow)
April 4: Maya Angelou
April 5: Anthony Horowitz (Raven’s Gate)
April 5: Richard Peck (A Long Way From Chicago)
April 5: Margaret Peterson Haddix (Shadow Children)
April 12: Beverly Cleary (Dear Mr. Henshaw)
April 12: Gary Soto (Too Many Tamales)
April 13: Marguerite Henry (Misty of Chincoteague)
April 21: Barbara Park (Junie B. Jones)
April 23: Shakespeare
April 26: Patricia Reilly Giff (Nory Ryan’s Song)
April 26: Lee Bennett Hopkins
April 27: Steven D’Amico
April 28: Lois Duncan
April 28: Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
May 4: Don Wood (Into the Volcano)
May 6: Leo Lionni (Frederick)
May 9: Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan)
May 9: Eleanor Estes (Ginger Pye)
May 10: Christopher Paul Curtis (Bud, Not Buddy)
May 12: Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer)
May 15: L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz)
May 15: J.S. Lewis (The Revenge of the Shadow King)
May 16: Bruce Coville (Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher)
May 17: Gary Paulsen (Hatchet)
May 18: Debbie Dadey (Adventures of the Bailey School Kids)
May 20: Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House )
May 22: Arnold Lobel (Fables)
May 23: Margaret Wise Brown (Important Book)
May 23: Scott O’Dell (Island of The Blue Dolphins)
June 2: Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)
June 2: Richard Scarry
June 5: Rick Riordan (The Lightening Thief)
June 10: Maurice Sendak (Chicken Soup With Rice)
June 11: Robert Munsch
June 12: Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank)
June 14: Bruce Degen (Magic School Bus, Jamberry)
June 14: Lawrence Yep
June 15: Brian Jacques (Redwall)
June 18: Chris Van Allsburg (Polar Express)
June 24: Kathryn Lasky (Guardians of Ga’Hoole)
June 24: Cynthia Rylant (Missing May)
June 25: Eric Carle (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?)
June 27: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)
July 11: Jean Craighead George (My Side of the Mountain)
July 11: E. B. White (Charlotte’s Web)
July 11: Patricia Polacco (Pink and Say)
July 26: James Berenstain (Berestain Bears)
July 28: Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
July 28: Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)
July 29: Sharon Creech (Love that Dog)
July 31: J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
July 31: Lynn Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard)
August 10: Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Gregor the Overlander)
August 12: Ann M. Martin (Babysitter’s Club)
August 12: Edith Nesbit (The Phoenix and the Carpet)
August 18: Paula Danziger (Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon )
August 27: Lisa Yee (Millicent Min: Girl Genius)
August 27: Ann Rinaldi (Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons)
August 29: Karen Hesse (Out of the Dust)
September 8: Aliki
September 8: Jack Prelutsky
September 8: Jon Scieszka (The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs)
September 8: Phillip Ardagh
September 11: Anthony Browne (Voices in the Park)
September 13: Roald Dahl (Matilda)
September 15: Tomie DePaola (The Legend of the Bluebonnet)
September 16: H. A. Rey (Curious George)
September 8: Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)
October 5: Donald Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown)
October 5: David Shannon (A Bad Case of Stripes)
October 8: R. L. Stine (Goosebumps)
October 18: Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)
October 19: Phillip Pullman (The Golden Compass)
October 23: Gordon Korman (Swindle)
October 26: Steven Kellogg (Johnny Appleseed)
October 31: Katherine Patterson (Animorphs)
November 13: Lois Ehlert
November 13: William Steig (Doctor de Soto)
November 16: Jean Fritz (And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?)
November 24: Francis Hodgson Burnett (Secret Garden, Little Princess)
November 25: Marc Brown (Arthur)
November 26: Charles Schultz (Charlie Brown)
November 29: C. S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
November 29: Madeline L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
November 29: Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
November 30: Mark Twain (Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
November 30: Lucy M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
December 1: Jan Brett (Hedgie’s Surprise)
December 10: Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
December 19: Eve Bunting (Summer of Riley)
December 23: Avi (True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle)
December 29: Molly Bang (When Sophie Gets Angry. . .Really Really Angry)
December 30: Mercer Meyer (Little Critter)