Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays and Websites

Happy Birthday with a different children's book like characters

The children’s book authors’ and illustrators’ websites are linked. A Wikipedia link was made for those without a website.

MONTHS: January February March April May June July August September October November December

February’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Jerry Spinelli

01–Meg Cabot

02–Judith Viorst

04–Russell Hoban

05–David Wiesner

07–Laura Ingalls Wilder

07–Charles Dickens

08–Donna Jo Napoli

08–Jules Verne

10–Mark Teague

10–Lucy Cousins

11–Jane Yolen

11–Mo Willems

12–Judy Blume

12–David Small

13–Simms Taback

13–Janet Taylor Lisle

14–Paul O. Zelinsky

14–Adam Gidwitz

15–Norman Bridwell

15–Jan Spivey Gilchrist

17–Robert Newton Peck

18–Barbara M. Joosse

19–Nancy Etchemendy

20–Tana Hoban

21–Jim Aylesworth

23–Walter Wick

23–C.S. Adler

24–Wilhelm Carl Grimm

25–Cynthia Voigt

26–Judith St. George

27–Uri Shulevitz

28–Megan McDonald

28–Donna Jo Napoli

28–Bill Thomson

28–Daniel Handler

March’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Tracy Barrett

01–Tonya Bolden

02–Leo Dillon

02–Sheila Black

02–Janette Sebring Lowrey

02–Dr. Seuss

03–Janet Stevens

03–Patricia MacLachlan 

04–Dav Pilkey

04--Peggy Rathman

05–Joy Cowley

05–Mem Fox

06–Sid Fleischman 

06–Chris Raschka

07– Kelly DiPucchio

07–Melinda Metz

07– Jane Dyer

08–Robert Sabuda

08–Kenneth Grahame 

09–Harry Bliss

09–R. A. Montgomery

10–John Wellington Kent

11– Wanda Gag

11–Ezra Jack Keats

11–Jonathan London

12–Virginia Hamilton 

12–Carl Hiaasen

13–Diane Dillon

13–Rachel RenĂŠe Russell

13–Ellen Raskin

15–Ruth White

16– Giles Andreae

16–Sid Fleischman

16–Peter H. Reynolds

16– David Lubar

17--Patrick McDonnell

17–Wendell Minor

17–Sherri L. Smith

18–Sarah Weeks

 19--Craig Hatkoff

20–Mitsumasa Anno

20–Lois Lowry

20–Bill Martin Jr. 

20–Louis Sachar 

21–David Wisniewski

21– Margaret Mahy

22–Randolph Caldecott

25– Kate DiCamillo

25– Linda Sue Park 

26–Jerry Pallotta 

26–Betty McDonald 

27–Dick King-Smith

28–Byrd Baylor

29–Ingrid Schubert

30–Anna Sewell

30–Eloise Wilkin

April’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

02–Hans Christian Andersen

03–Washington Irving

04–Maya Angelou

05–Richard Peck

05–Anthony Horowitz 

06–Graeme Base 

08–Trina Schart Hyman

09–Margaret Peterson Haddix

10–Martin Waddell 

11–April Pulley Sayre

12–Beverly Cleary

12–Gary Soto

13–Marguerite Henry

15–Jacqueline Briggs Martin

16–Garth Williams

16–Gertrude Chandler Warner

18– Leigh Hobbs

19–Javaka Steptoe 

20–Mary Hoffman

21–Barbara Park

22–Wendy Mass

22–Paula Fox

22–Eileen Christelow

23–William Shakespeare

25–George Ella Lyon

26–Patricia Reilly Giff 

27–Ludwig Bemelmans

27– Nancy Shaw

28–Lois Duncan

28–Amy Hest

28–Harper Lee

29–Amy Krouse Rosenthal

29–Nicole Rubel

29–Jill Paton Walsh 

May’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

04–Audrey Penn 

04–Don Wood

05–Leo Lionni’

06–Ted Lewin

06–Barbara McClintock

09–Eleanor Estes

10–Christopher Paul Curtis

10–Caroline B. Cooney 

11–Peter Sis

14–Eoin Colfer 

15–Kadir Nelson

15–L. Frank Baum

16–Adam Rex

16–Margret Rey

16–Bruce Coville

17–Eloise Greenfield

17–Gary Paulsen

17–Grace Lin

18–Lillian Hoban 

20– Mary Pope Osborne 

20–Annie M. G. Schmidt

20–Dan Yaccarino

22–Arnold Lobel

23–Susan Cooper

23– Margaret Wise Brown

24–Candace Fleming 

29–Andrew Clements

30–Millicent Selsam

31– Will Hillenbrand 

June’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01  Doris Buchanan Smith

02 Norton Juster

02  Paul Galdone

02 Helen Oxenbury

02 Anita Lobel 

05 Richard Scarry

05 Allan Ahlberg 

05 Rick Riordan

06 Cynthia Rylant

06 Peter Spier 

07 Gwendolyn Brooks

07 Nikki Giovanni

07 Louise Erdrich

08 Carolyn Meyer 

08 Judy Sierra 

09 Kate Petty

10 Maurice Sendak

11 Robert Munsch

12 Anne Frank

12 Helen Lester 

14 Bruce Degen

14 James Gurney 

14 Laurence Yep

15 Brian Jacques

18 Chris Van Allsburg

18 Angela Johnson

23 Theodore Taylor

24 Kathryn Lasky 

25 Eric Carle 

25 Elizabeth Orton Jones

26 Charlotte Zolotow

26 Walter Farley

26 Wallace Tripp

28 Bette Greene

30 David McPhail

July’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01– Emily Arnold McCully

02– Jack Gantos

02–Jean Craighead George

08– Pete Oswald

09– Todd Parr

11–Patricia Polacco 

11–James Stevenson

11– Jane Werner Watson

11–E.B. White

13–Marcia Brown

13–Ashley Bryan

13–R.J. Palacio

14–Laura Joffe Numeroff

14–Brian Selznick

14–Peggy Parish

15–Clement C. Moore

16–Arnold Adoff

18–Felicia Bond

19--K.A. Applegate

20–Kenneth Grahame

20–Jack Sendak

26–James Berenstain

28–Natalie Babbitt

28–Beatrix Potter

28–Jon J. Muth

29–Sharon Creech

29–Kathleen Krull

30–Marcus Pfister

31–Lynne Reid Banks

31–Tui T. Sutherland(Erin Hunter)

31–J.K. Rowling

August’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

02–James Howe

06–Barbara Cooney

06–Frank Asch

07–Betsy Byars

08–Rafael Lopez

09–Seymour Simon

09–Patricia McKissack

09–Pamela L. Travers

10–Dev Petty

11–Joanna Cole

11–Don Freeman

11–Steven Kroll

12–Walter Dean Myers

12–Audrey Wood

12–Ann M. Martin

14–Alice Provensen

16–Eric Litwin

16–Eileen Spinelli

17–Patricia J. Wynne

18–Paula Danzinger

18–Brian Pinkney

20–Taro Gomi

20–Judy Schachner

20–Jeff Brown

21–Sharon Draper

21–Arthur Yorinks

22–Will Hobbs

23–Mac Barnett

23–Cedella Marley

25–Lane Smith

25–Ian Falconer

26--Bernard Wiseman

27–Suzy Kline

28–Allen Say

28–Tasha Tudor

28–Roger Duvoisin

28–Brian Pinkney

29–Karen Hesse

30–Virginia Lee Burton

30–Helen Craig

30–Donald Crews

September’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Jim Arnosky 

01--Gail Gibbons

02–Demi

02–Ellen Stoll Walsh

03–Aliki Brandenberg

04--Syd Hoff

05–Paul Fleischman

05–Lee Bacon

06–Tony DiTerlizzi

06– Kathy Kacer

07–Alexandra Day

07–Eric Hill 

08–Michael Hague

08–Jack Prelutsky

08--Jon Scieszka 

09–Betsy Lewin

09–Geoff Rodkey

09–Aileen Fisher

09–Gene Barretta

09–Kimberly Willis Holt

11–Carmen Agra Deedy

12–Valerie Tripp

12– Rob Buyea

13–Roald Dahl

13–Deborah Hopkinson

13--Emily Jenkins

13–Mildred D. Taylor

14–William H. Armstrong

14–Edith Thacher Hurd

14–John Steptoe

14-Diane Goode

14–Elizabeth Winthrop

15–Robert McCloskey

15–Tomie DePaola

15–Paul Fenimore Cooper

16–Karen Katz

16– Julia Donaldson

17–Gail Carson Levine 

17–H.A. Rey

17–Elizabeth Enright

19– Rachel Field

19– Janet Perlman

20– Michael J. Rosen

21–Alexander Key

21–Hans Wilhelm

21–Taro Yashima

22–Ann Grifalconi

23--Bruce Brooks

24–W. Wilson Rawls

24–Harry Behn

25–Jim Murphy

25–Andrea Davis Pinkney

25--Shel Silverstein

25–James Ransome

27–Martin Handford

27–Paul Goble

27–Bob Staake

27--Bernard Waber

28–Kate Douglas Wiggin

29–Stan Berenstain

29--Marissa Moss

29– Pete Hautman

30–Alvin Tresselt

October’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Lynn Plourde

01–Tracey West

04–Toni Buzzeo

04–Karen Cushman

04–Donald Sobol

05–David Shannon

08–R.L. Stine

08–Faith Ringgold

08–Karma Wilson

09–K.A. Applegate

10–James Marshall

10–Robert D. San Souci

14–Lois Lenski

16–Jospeh Bruchac

18–Shel Silverstein

19–Ed Emberley

19–Dan Gutman

19–Philip Pullman

20–Nikki Grimes

20–Gennifer Choldenko

20–Crockett Johnson

22–Marjorie Flack

23–Daniel Salmieri

23–Gordan Korman

26–Steven Kellogg

26–Tony Abbott

26–Eric Rohmann

30–Eric A. Kimmel

31–Katherine Paterson

31–Jim Benton

November’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Hilary Knight

03–Janell Cannon

07–Yuyi Morales

08–Brandon Mull

09–Pat Cummings

09–Lois Ehlert

10–Neil Gaiman

10–Holly Black

12–Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

14–William Steig

14–Astrid Lindgren

15–Daniel Pinkwater

16–Jean Fritz

17–Christopher Paolini

20–Marion Dane Bauer

21–Elizabeth George Speare

22–William Kotzwinkler

23–Lauren Tarshis

24–Mordicai Gerstein

24–Frances Hodgson Burnett

24–Ruth Sanderson

25–Marc Brown

25–P.D. Eastman

26–Charles M. Schulz

27–Emma Walton Hamilton

27–Kevin Henkes

28–Ed Young

29–Jon Klassen

29–Louisa May Alcott

29–Madeleine L’Engle

29—C.S. Lewis

30–Lucy Maud Montgomery

30–Roland Smith

December’s Children’s Book Authors’ and Illustrators’ Birthdays

01–Jan Brett

02–David Macaulay

04–Munro Leaf

04–Matt Tavares

09–Jean De Brunhoff

09–Mary Downing Hahn

09–Nick Bruel

10–Cornelia Funke

10–Mary Norton

11–William Joyce

19–Eve Bunting

22–Jerry Pinkney

23–Avi

25–Anna Dewdney

25–Pam Munoz Ryan

26–Jean Van Leeuwen

27–Erin E. Stead

29–Molly Garrett Bang

30–Mercer Meyer

30–Rudyard Kipling

31–Margery Cuyler

31–Gerald McDermott

Is there an author or illustrator with a birthday you would like me to add? Let me know. If there is an official website, please include that in your e-mail. Did I get a date wrong? Do you have an official website? Is the link broken? Please let me know that too.