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Contentment - Ability to live in a state of peaceful composure, finding satisfaction within your circumstances.

Greg Foley’s birthday is on January 30th.

Award-winning author-illustrator Greg Foley grew up in Austin, Texas, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He now designs and creative-directs Visionaire, V Magazine, and VMAN and lives in Greenwich Village, New York.

While discussing his many interests, such as studying child cognitive development, during an interview with Ami Kealoha, Gregstated, “If people would just realize we’re kids and we’re only here for an instant, then you might give yourself a break and be alittle kinder to the kids around you.”

He is also the author-illustrator of Willoughby & The Lion and Willoughby & The Moon.

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Adaptability - Readinessand willingness to adjust asnecessary to the changes inpeople and circumstancesthat arise in daily life.

Chieri Uegaki’s birthday is on February 21st.

Chieri Uegaki is a second-generation Japanese-Canadian who began her writing career at ageseven, publishing her family newspaper, ThePender Street Times. Years later, she honed herskills in the University of British Columbia'sCreative Writing program.

Her first picture book, Suki's Kimono, was a 2000finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada's Writingfor Children competition and was inspired by herrelationship with her grandmother. “This charmingbook highlights the importance of being ourselves,reflecting what makes us distinctive,” KathrynMcNaughton noted in Resource Links. “It alsogives children the message that being true to whatwe value is worthwhile.”

Chieri's latest picture book, Rosie and Buttercup, a touching picture book about two sisters, findsher once again pairing with illustrator StéphaneJorisch.

She lives in Sechelt on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.

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Integrity - Recognized virtue anduprightness of character.

Carl Hiaasen’s birthday is on March 12th.

A graduate of the University of Florida, at age 23 he joined The Miami Heraldas a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the paper's weeklymagazine and later its prize-winning investigations team.For his journalism and commentary, Hiaasen has receivednumerous honors, including the Damon Runyon Awardfrom the Denver Press Club and the LifetimeAchievement Award from the National Society ofNewspaper Columnists.

He began writing novels with the late William D.Montalbano, and together they produced three mysterythrillers which borrowed heavily from their own reporting experiences.

Hiaasen made his children's book debut with Hoot(2002), which was awarded a Newbery Honor.

Hiaasen's novels have been published in 34 languages.The London Observer has called him "America's finestsatirical novelist," while Janet Maslin of The New YorkTimes has compared him to Preston Sturges, Woody Allenand S.J. Perelman. The Florida Humanities Council presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award forWriting.

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where hestill lives with his family.

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Self-confidence - Trusting your abilities and being positive

about yourself.

Tuesday Mourning’s birthday is on April 5th.

When Tuesday Mourning was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be an artist when she grew up. She would look forward to rainy days, as they meant a lot of timeindoors drawing paper dolls with her sisters and creatingelaborate stories about them.

She later received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art at BrighamYoung University, where she learned how to draw and paint for a living. Now, she is an illustrator who lives in South Pasadena, California.

She especially loves illustrating books for kids and teenagers.When she isn’t illustrating, Tuesday loves spending time withher husband, who is an actor, and their two sons.

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Illustration copyright ©2011 by Dan Yaccarino. Used with permission of Random House. All rights reserved.

Loving-kindness - Being gentle, willing to help, friendly, courteous,

and considerate.

Dan Yaccarino’s birthday is on May 20th.

Children the world over know Dan Yaccarino from his children's books(more than a million and a half sold todate), animated TV series Oswald(Noggin) and Willa's Wild Life (NBC and Qubo) and character designs for

The Backyardigans (Nickelodeon), as well as his many illustrated toys, games, and other children's products. His bold, stylized illustrations add wit and energy to the work of such prestigious authors as Margaret Wise Brown, Jack Prelutsky, Kevin Henkes and Patricia MacLachlan in addition to his own stories.

Yaccarino's internationally recognized art style has earnedhim a large following in Japan, exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Rome, and a visit to the WhiteHouse. His books have been translated into many languages and have inspired audio books and video adaptations. Yaccarino's work has been recognized with a host of prestigious awards including the Parents MagazineTop Toy Award, Parent's Choice Award, and Child MagazineAward.

Yaccarino lives with his wife and their two children inNew York City and creates his quirky characters in his studio high above the Hudson River, surrounded by vintage toys.

Check out Dan Yaccarino’s original art work on the front of this calendar.

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Friendliness - A sincere openness to accept others socially. Norton Juster’s birthday is on June 2nd.

Norton Juster was born in Brooklyn, New York, just prior to the Great Depression. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing graduate work in urban planning.

After three years in the U.S. Navy, he began working as an architect in New York. He opened his own firm in western Massachusetts with projects such as the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, educational and cultural projects throughout New England, and a number of buildings for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. He also taught architecture and planning at Pratt Institute in New York and was Professor of Design at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Juster wrote The Phantom Tollbooth during the early 1960s while living in Brooklyn. Jules Feiffer, a neighbor of Juster's, did the illustrations. Winner of the George C. Stone Centre for Children's Books Award, it was made into a feature film by MGM in 1969, a musical, and in 2007 it was produced at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

He has also written The Dot and the Line, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by MGM and famed animator Chuck Jones; Alberic the Wise; Otter Nonsense; As: A Surfeit of Similes; and the Caldecott Medal winner The Hello Goodbye Window, Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie; and his most recent picture book, Neville.

Juster lives with his wife in western Massachusetts.

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Teamwork - Taking action as a group to achieve a common goal.

Anne Kennedy’s birthday is on July 25th.

Anne Kennedy's favorite subjects have always been animals, and she has loved working on the award-winning Miss Fox series. In the fourth grade she created tiny animal drawings and sold them for a fewcents from a box in her desk at school.

Through the years she concentrated on music and acting, and was originally a music teacher, but she hasbeen an author and illustrator for twenty-eight years. Anne is a self-taught artist, but credits her talent toher genes, as her grandfather and great-grandfather, Robert and Josef Vittur, were accomplished muralistswho decorated many churches with gorgeous frescoes of angels and saints. As the talent filtered downthrough the generations, she says it came out on her paper as "squirrels in pants.”

In her spare time she enjoys riding horses, eating cookies, and traveling. She and her husband, Jack, livein Ohio with their rescued dog, Banjo.

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Benevolence - Having a general desirefor the good of others, and disposition to

act so as to further that good.

Lane Smith’sbirthday is on August 25th.

Lane Smith is author and illustrator of the national bestsellers It's A Book; John, Paul, George & Ben; andMadam President; and several other works.

Grandpa Green is a noted Silver Medal 2011 Society ofIllustrators: The Original Art Show winner, a JuniorLibrary Guild selection, and acquired Starred Reviews inSchool Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly.

It's a Book was on the New York Times bestseller list for over six months and has been translated into over twenty languages. It's a Book has also garnered StarredReviews by School Library Journal and Publisher'sWeekly, as well as Publisher's Weekly Best Children'sBook 2010 and several other noted reviews.

He has illustrated books by Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, JackPrelutsky, Florence Parry Heide, and Jon Scieszka,including The Stinky Cheese Man, for which he receiveda Caldecott Honor award. Lane has also served asConceptual Designer on the Disney film version ofJames and the Giant Peach.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, book designerMolly Leach.

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Anti-Bully - Treating others in a way that does not intimidate by hurting or humiliation in averbal, emotional or physical way as to cause dominance.

Kes Gray’s birthday is on September 8th.

Listed by the Independent as one of the Top Ten children’s authors in Britain, Kes Gray is a writer who likes his books to fizz.

Kes first turned heads in 2001 when his debut picture book Eat Your Peas pipped Harry Potter to become the overallwinner of the Children’s Book Award. At the Red House Children’s Book awards in 2009, he became the first author tohave won prizes for both his fiction and picture-book writing.

He is now the author of more than forty books for children and the creator of the Daisy, Nelly The Monster Sitter and Get Well Friends characters. His award-winning picture books now include Billy’s Bucket, Vesuvius Poovius, Mom andDad Glue, and Leave Me Alone.

He lives in Essex with his wife and children. It has always been his dream to write children's books.

Illustration Copyright ©2011 by Lee Wildish from Leave Me Alone written by Kes GrayUsed with permission of Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Sense of Humor - A cheerful view on adversityas to cope, support happiness, and make

others smile and laugh.

Jim Benton’sbirthday is on October 31st.

Jim Benton is a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of many licensed properties, including It’s Happy Bunny. He’s

created a kids’ TV series, designed clothing, and written books such as Franny K. Stein and the bestselling Dear Dumb Diary series.

Benton began his career in a custom design T-shirt shop where hestarted designing his own characters. At the same time, Jim did illustrations and artwork for magazines and newspapers. Peoplemagazine named him "the most visible cartoonist in America.”

Benton also created greeting cards and worked in the magazine andpublishing industry. In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated series, The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, aired on Fox Kids.The National Cartoonist Society awarded Jim Benton a 2011 Reuben Award in the category of greeting cards.

Jim lives in Michigan with his spectacular wife and kids, where heoperates out of his own studio.

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Self-Sacrifice - Delaying what you would like for even one individual or the benefit of many.

Gloria Houston’s birthday is on November 24th.

Dr. Gloria Houston is an educator, an author of multi-award winning best-selling books for young readers, as well as a writer of textbooks and other teaching materials. Her books have won and been listed on more than forty awards and awards lists. However, she typifies herself as “first, last and always, a teacher.”

Houston earned her Ph. D. at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she was the founding coordinator of Suncoast Young Authors Conference, one of more than fifty young writers conferences she has implemented nationally. She also founded the USF Young Writers Camp and the Center for the Study of Child Writing.

Honors include the Distinguished Educator award by the International Reading Association, National Excellence in LiteracyEducation award, Distinguished Alumni and membership in the Rhododendron Society, and membership on the InternationalGoverning Board for Computers Across the World (CPAW), with its stated goal of attaining peace through communication.

Houston lives in western North Carolina working on several projects with Appalachian State University and the NorthCarolina Library System, and with southeastern regional school systems, which allows her to bring some of her ideas, successfully implemented throughout the nation and the world, to her home region.

Illustration Copyright ©2011 by Susan Condie Lamb from Miss Dorothy And Her Bookmobile written by Gloria Houston.Used with permission of HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Optimistic - Able to visualize thepositive side of things.

Eve Bunting’s birthday is on December 19th.

Hi, I’m Eve Bunting. I was born in alittle town in Ireland called Magheraand I was brought up in the tradition of storytelling. My husbandand I and our three children

immigrated to the United States in 1959 and quite soonafter that I began to write my own stories.

Since then I have published over 250 books for childrenand young people. Right now I am working on a seriesfor very young readers called Frog and Friends. I’vegrown to care about my little woodland characters aswe travel together from book to book.

One morning a friend came to visit and glanced at thenote I had pinned above my computer. She laughedand I had to explain my list. “These are my characters,my frog and his friends,” I told her.

FROG . . . male, professor type, wise.RACCOON . . . female. Knows how to knit, bombastic, bossy.

SQUIRREL . . . male. Jittery, forgetful.RABBIT . . . female. Has too many babies.POSSUM . . . female. Soft, motherly, caring.SALAMANDER . . . male. Shy, blushes easily.LITTLE JUMPING MOUSE . . . Female. Knows a lotabout people.

HIPPO . . . male. Kind but dumb.

Well, a writer has to keep her characters straight!

Sleeping Bear Press has invited me to write several moreFrog and Friends adventures. The talented Josée Massewill illustrate them. I'll be spending a lot of time in 2012by the pond and on the napping rock. It's a nice placeto be!

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AaAardema, Verna _______________JUNE 6Aaseng, Nathan________________JULY 7Ada, Alma Flor ____________JANUARY 3Adams, Richard ________________MAY 9Adkins, Jan ____________NOVEMBER 7Adler, C.S. ______________FEBRUARY 23Adler, David A. _______________APRIL 10Adoff, Arnold _________________JULY 16Agee, Jon____________________APRIL 19Ahlberg, Allan ________________JUNE 5Ahlberg, Janet____________OCTOBER 21Aiken, Joan ____________SEPTEMBER 4Alborough, Jez__________NOVEMBER 13Alcock, Vivien__________SEPTEMBER 26Alcott, Louisa May ______NOVEMBER 29Alexander, Lloyd___________JANUARY 30Aliki _________________SEPTEMBER 3Allard, Harry______________JANUARY 27Almond, David ________________MAY 15Alvarez, Julia _______________MARCH 27Ames, Lee J. ______________JANUARY 8Ancona, George _________DECEMBER 4Andersen, Hans Christian_______APRIL 2Anderson, M.T._________NOVEMBER 4Anderson, Margaret J. ____DECEMBER 24Angelou, Maya _______________APRIL 4Anholt, Laurence ___________AUGUST 4Anno, Mitsumasa ___________MARCH 20Appelt, Kathy _________________JULY 6Armstrong, Jennifer_____________MAY 12Armstrong, William H.___SEPTEMBER 14Arnold, Caroline _______________MAY 16Arnold, Tedd _____________JANUARY 20Arnosky, Jim ___________SEPTEMBER 1Aruego, Jose_______________AUGUST 9Asch, Frank _______________AUGUST 6Asher, Sandy_____________OCTOBER 16Asimov, Isaac______________JANUARY 2Atwater, Richard ________DECEMBER 20Atwell, Debby _________________MAY 28Atwood, Margaret _______NOVEMBER 18Auch, Mary Jane ________NOVEMBER 21Averill, Esther _________________JULY 24Avi ___________________DECEMBER 23Aylesworth, Jim __________FEBRUARY 21Ayres, Katherine __________OCTOBER 15

BbBabbitt, Natalie ________________JULY 28Baker, Jeannie __________NOVEMBER 2Baker, Keith _______________MARCH 17

Baldwin, James_____________AUGUST 2Bang, Molly ____________DECEMBER 29Banks, Lynne Reid______________JULY 31Barron, T.A. _______________MARCH 26Barton, Byron__________SEPTEMBER 8Base, Graeme ________________APRIL 6Bate, Lucy _________________MARCH 19Bauer, Joan ___________________JULY 12Bauer, Marion Dane _____NOVEMBER 20Baum, Frank L. ________________MAY 15Bawden, Nina_____________JANUARY 19Baylor, Byrd _______________MARCH 28Beckman, Wendy Hart______JANUARY 13Bellairs, John______________JANUARY 17Bemelmans, Ludwig ___________APRIL 27Benchley, Nathaniel______NOVEMBER 13Bender, Robert_________________MAY 1Bennett, Kelly _____________AUGUST 8Benton, Jim _____________OCTOBER 31Berenstain, Jan_________________JULY 26Berenstain, Stan ________SEPTEMBER 29Berger, Melvin _____________AUGUST 23Betancourt, Jeanne ________OCTOBER 2Bial, Raymond__________NOVEMBER 5Bierhorst, John _________SEPTEMBER 2Bildner, Phil____________DECEMBER 29Binch, Caroline _______________JUNE 5Black, Holly____________NOVEMBER 10Blake, Quentin__________DECEMBER 16Bliss, Harry ________________MARCH 9Bloor, Edward____________OCTOBER 12Blos, Joan W. ___________DECEMBER 9Blume, Judy _____________FEBRUARY 12Bodecker, N.M. ___________JANUARY 13Bolognese, Don ________SEPTEMBER 6Bond, Felicia __________________JULY 18Bond, Michael ____________JANUARY 13Bonham, Frank __________FEBRUARY 25Bonners, Susan _______________APRIL 8Bonsall, Crosby____________JANUARY 2Borden, Louise ___________OCTOBER 30Bottner, Barbara _______________MAY 25Bourgeois, Paulette _____________JULY 20Boynton, Sandra______________APRIL 3Branley, Franklyn _____________JUNE 5Brashares, Ann_________________JULY 30Bray, Libba ________________MARCH 11Brennan, Rosemarie _______FEBRUARY 7Brenner, Barbara ______________JUNE 26Brett, Jan ______________DECEMBER 1Bridwell, Norman ________FEBRUARY 15Briggs, Raymond __________JANUARY 18Brimner, Larry Dane_____NOVEMBER 5Brink, Carol Ryrie _______DECEMBER 28Brisson, Pat _____________FEBRUARY 23

Brooks, Bruce ____________OCTOBER 23Brooks, Gwendolyn ____________JUNE 7Brown, Dan __________________JUNE 22Brown, Marc ___________NOVEMBER 25Brown, Marcia_________________JULY 13Brown, Margaret Wise___________MAY 23Browne, Anthony _______SEPTEMBER 11Bruchac, Joseph __________OCTOBER 16Brunkus, Denise ____________MARCH 9Bryan, Ashley _________________JULY 13Bryant, Bonnie ________________MAY 21Buck, Pearl ___________________JUNE 25Buehner, Caralyn_______________MAY 20Buehner, Mark ________________JULY 20Bulla, Clyde Robert ________JANUARY 9Bunting, Eve ___________DECEMBER 19Burch, Robert_________________JUNE 26Burleigh, Robert ___________JANUARY 4Burnett, Frances Hodgson_NOVEMBER 24Burningham, John ____________APRIL 27Burton, Virginia Lee ________AUGUST 30Butler, Dore Hillestad _______AUGUST 26Byars, Betsy _______________AUGUST 7

CcCabot, Meg _____________FEBRUARY 1Caldecott, Randolph_________MARCH 22Calmenson, Stephanie____NOVEMBER 28Calvert, Patricia________________JULY 22Cameron, Ann ___________OCTOBER 21Cannon, Janell__________NOVEMBER 3Capucilli, Alyssa Satin ____NOVEMBER 2Carle, Eric ___________________JUNE 25Carlson, Nancy L._________OCTOBER 10Carlson, Natalie Savage_____OCTOBER 3Carlstrom, Nancy White _____AUGUST 4Carrick, Carol _________________MAY 20Carrick, Donald ______________APRIL 7Carris, Joan _______________AUGUST 18Carroll, Lewis _____________JANUARY 27Carson, Rachel_________________MAY 27Caseley, Judith ___________OCTOBER 17Caudill, Rebecca__________FEBRUARY 2Cazet, Denys_______________MARCH 22Charlip, Remy ____________JANUARY 10Cherry, Lynne_____________JANUARY 5Chocolate, Debbi __________JANUARY 25Choi, Sook Nyul___________JANUARY 10Christelow, Eileen _____________APRIL 22Christie, Agatha ________SEPTEMBER 15Christopher, John _____________APRIL 16Christopher, Matt __________AUGUST 16Cisneros, Sandra_________DECEMBER 20Clark, Ann Nolan _______DECEMBER 15Clark, Mary Higgins _____DECEMBER 24

Clarke, Arthur C.________DECEMBER 16Cleary, Beverly _______________APRIL 12Cleary, Brian P. ___________OCTOBER 1Cleaver, Bill________________MARCH 24Cleaver, Vera ______________JANUARY 6Clements, Andrew______________MAY 29Clifford, Eth____________DECEMBER 25Clifton, Lucille ________________JUNE 27Climo, Shirley __________NOVEMBER 25Coatsworth, Elizabeth ___________MAY 31Cobb, Vicki _______________AUGUST 19Coerr, Eleanor _________________MAY 29Cohen, Barbara_____________MARCH 15Cohen, Daniel______________MARCH 12Cohen, Miriam___________OCTOBER 14Cole, Joanna_______________AUGUST 11Colfer, Eoin ___________________MAY 14Collard III, Sneed B. _____NOVEMBER 7Collier, Bryan _____________JANUARY 31Collier, Christopher ________JANUARY 29Collier, James Lincoln __________JUNE 27Collodi, Carlo __________NOVEMBER 24Coman, Carolyn__________OCTOBER 28Conford, Ellen______________MARCH 20Conrad, Pam _________________JUNE 18Cooney, Barbara____________AUGUST 6Cooney, Caroline B._____________MAY 10Cooper, Floyd_____________JANUARY 8Cooper, Ilene_______________MARCH 10Cooper, James Fenimore__SEPTEMBER 15Cooper, Susan _________________MAY 23Cormier, Robert ___________JANUARY 17Cosby, Bill ____________________JULY 12Cosgrove, Stephen______________JULY 26Cousins, Lucy____________FEBRUARY 10Coville, Bruce _________________MAY 16Craddock, Erik ________________MAY 7Creech, Sharon ________________JULY 29Crew, Linda _________________APRIL 8Crews, Donald_____________AUGUST 30Crichton, Michael_________OCTOBER 22Cronin, Doreen_____________MARCH 28Crutcher, Chris ________________JULY 17Cummings, Pat _________NOVEMBER 9Curry, Louise Jane_______SEPTEMBER 24Curtis, Christopher Paul _________MAY 10Curtis, Jamie Lee________NOVEMBER 22Cushman, Doug _______________MAY 4Cushman, Karen__________OCTOBER 4Cutler, Jane ____________SEPTEMBER 24Cuyler, Margery_________DECEMBER 31

DdD'Aulaire, Edgar ________SEPTEMBER 30D'Aulaire, Ingri _________DECEMBER 27

Dadey, Debbie_________________MAY 18Dahl, Michael________________APRIL 2Dahl, Roald____________SEPTEMBER 13Dalgliesh, Alice___________OCTOBER 7Daly, Niki____________________JUNE 13Danziger, Paula ____________AUGUST 18Daugherty, James ______________JUNE 1Davis, Jim ____________________JULY 28Day, Alexandra _________SEPTEMBER 7De Groat, Diane _______________MAY 24De Jong, Meindert __________MARCH 4de Angeli, Marguerite ________MARCH 14de la Pena, Matt __________FEBRUARY 9de Paola, Tomie ________SEPTEMBER 15De Regniers, Beatrice________AUGUST 16de Saint-Exupery, Antoine _______JUNE 29DeClements, Barthe_______OCTOBER 8Deedy, Carmen Agra_____SEPTEMBER 11DeFelice, Cynthia________DECEMBER 28Degen, Bruce _________________JUNE 14Delacre, LuLu __________DECEMBER 20Delton, Judy __________________MAY 6Demi_________________SEPTEMBER 2Denise, Christopher_________AUGUST 15Desimini, Lisa______________MARCH 21Dessen, Sarah_________________JUNE 6Deuker, Carl ______________AUGUST 26Devillers, Julia _________________MAY 26Diaz, David _____________OCTOBER 2DiCamillo, Kate ____________MARCH 25Dickens, Charles _________FEBRUARY 7Dickinson, Emily ________DECEMBER 10Dickinson, Peter_________DECEMBER 16Dillon, Diane ______________MARCH 13Dillon, Leo ________________MARCH 2Disney, Walt____________DECEMBER 5DiTerlizzi, Toni_________SEPTEMBER 6Donovan, Jane Monroe_______MARCH 29Dorris, Michael____________JANUARY 30Dorros, Arthur_________________MAY 19Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan_________MAY 22Dragonwagon, Crescent __NOVEMBER 25Draper, Sharon M.__________AUGUST 21Du Bois, William Pene __________MAY 9Duey, Kathleen___________OCTOBER 8Duffey, Betsy ____________FEBRUARY 6Duncan, Lois ________________APRIL 28

EeEastman, P.D. __________NOVEMBER 25Edmonds, Walter D. ____________JULY 15Egielski, Richard _______________JULY 16Ehlert, Lois ____________NOVEMBER 9Ehrlich, Amy__________________JULY 24Eliot, T.S. _____________SEPTEMBER 26

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Ellis, Sarah____________________MAY 19Emberley, Barbara _______DECEMBER 12Emberley, Ed ____________OCTOBER 19Emberley, Michael _____________JUNE 2Emberley, Rebecca _____________JUNE 12Enright, Elizabeth _______SEPTEMBER 17Erickson, John R. _________OCTOBER 20Ernst, Lisa Campbell_________MARCH 13Estes, Eleanor__________________MAY 9Ets, Marie Hall__________DECEMBER 16

FfFalconer, Ian_______________AUGUST 25Farley, Steven___________NOVEMBER 2Farley, Walter _________________JUNE 26Farmer, Nancy_________________JULY 9Faulkner, William _______SEPTEMBER 25Feelings, Tom _________________MAY 19Feiffer, Jules ______________JANUARY 26Feiffer, Kate_______________JANUARY 5Fenner, Carol __________SEPTEMBER 30Field, Rachel ___________SEPTEMBER 19Fine, Anne _____________DECEMBER 7Finn, Carrie _____________OCTOBER 14Fisher, Dorothy Canfield ___FEBRUARY 17Fisher, Leonard E. _____________JUNE 24Fitzgerald, F. Scott_______SEPTEMBER 24Fitzhugh, Louise __________OCTOBER 5Flack, Marjorie ___________OCTOBER 23Fleischman, Paul________SEPTEMBER 5Fleischman, Sid_____________MARCH 16Fleming, Denise ___________JANUARY 31Fletcher, Ralph _____________MARCH 17Florian, Douglas ____________MARCH 18Fogelin, Adrian_____________AUGUST 28Foley, Greg E. _____________JANUARY 30Forbes, Esther_________________JUNE 28Foreman, Michael ___________MARCH 21Fox, Mem _________________MARCH 5Fox, Paula ___________________APRIL 22Fradin, Dennis Brindell ___DECEMBER 20Franco, Betsy ______________AUGUST 15Frank, Anne _________________JUNE 12Freedman, Russell_________OCTOBER 11Freeman, Don _____________AUGUST 11Fritz, Jean______________NOVEMBER 16Frost, Helen _______________MARCH 4Frost, Robert _______________MARCH 26Funke, Cornelia _________DECEMBER 10

GgGackenbach, Dick ________FEBRUARY 9Gag, Wanda _______________MARCH 11

Gaiman, Neil___________NOVEMBER 10Galdone, Paul ________________JUNE 2Gallant, Roy A. _______________APRIL 17Gallo, Don___________________JUNE 1Gammell, Stephen ________FEBRUARY 10Gantos, Jack __________________JULY 2Garden, Nancy ________________MAY 15Gardiner, John Reynolds __DECEMBER 6Gardner, John _________________JULY 21Garland, Sherry________________JULY 24Gay, Marie-Louise _____________JUNE 17Geisert, Arthur _________SEPTEMBER 20George, Jean Craighead__________JULY 2Geringer, Laura __________FEBRUARY 23Ghigna, Charles ____________AUGUST 25Gibbons, Gail______________AUGUST 1Giblin, James Cross_____________JULY 8Giff, Patricia Reilly ____________APRIL 26Gifford, Peggy __________NOVEMBER 18Gilman, Phoebe ______________APRIL 4Gilson, Jamie__________________JULY 4Giovanni, Nikki ______________JUNE 7Gipson, Fred_____________FEBRUARY 7Glass, Andrew_____________JANUARY 16Glasser, Robin Preiss_______OCTOBER 4Goble, Paul ____________SEPTEMBER 27Gollub, Matthew _______SEPTEMBER 29Gonzalez, Lucia _________DECEMBER 13Goode, Diane __________SEPTEMBER 14Gorey, Edward ___________FEBRUARY 22Gorman, Carol___________FEBRUARY 16Gourley, Catherine_______DECEMBER 18Graham, Ian ___________SEPTEMBER 9Grahame, Kenneth __________MARCH 8Granfield, Linda ________NOVEMBER 22Gray, Elizabeth Janet_______OCTOBER 6Gray, Kes______________SEPTEMBER 8Gray, Libba Moore __________MARCH 3Green, John _______________AUGUST 24Greene, Bette _________________JUNE 28Greenfield, Eloise_______________MAY 17Greenwald, Sheila ______________MAY 26Gregory, Kristiana _____________JUNE 12Griffin, Adele__________________JULY 29Griffith, Helen ___________OCTOBER 31Grimes, Nikki____________OCTOBER 20Grimm, Jacob_____________JANUARY 4Grimm, Wilhelm Karl _____FEBRUARY 24Gross, Ruth________________MARCH 1Gutman, Dan____________OCTOBER 19Gwynne, Fred _________________JULY 10

HhHaddix, Margaret Peterson______APRIL 9Hader, Berta_____________FEBRUARY 6

Hader, Elmer___________SEPTEMBER 7Hafner, Marilyn _________DECEMBER 14Hague, Kathleen ____________MARCH 6Hague, Michael_________SEPTEMBER 8Hahn, Mary Downing____DECEMBER 9Hale, Bruce______________OCTOBER 30Hale, Shannon ____________JANUARY 26Haley, Gail E. __________NOVEMBER 4Hall, Donald___________SEPTEMBER 20Halperin, Wendy______________APRIL 10Hamilton, Virginia __________MARCH 12Hansen, Joyce____________OCTOBER 18Harness, Cheryl________________JULY 6Harper, Charise Mericle __SEPTEMBER 16Harshman, Marc _________OCTOBER 1Hart, Alison _________________APRIL 16Haseley, Dennis _______________JUNE 28Haskins, Jim___________SEPTEMBER 19Hatkoff, Craig______________MARCH 19Hatkoff, Isabella __________OCTOBER 15Hatkoff, Juliana ___________JANUARY 6Haugaard, Erik _______________APRIL 13Hautzig, Deborah_________OCTOBER 1Hautzig, Esther___________OCTOBER 18Havill, Juanita _________________MAY 11Hawes, Charles____________JANUARY 24Hawkes, Kevin_____________AUGUST 28Hawthorne, Nathaniel___________JULY 4Hazen, Barbara Shook _____FEBRUARY 4Hearne, Betsy ____________OCTOBER 6Heide, Florence Parry______FEBRUARY 27Heinlein, Robert _______________JULY 7Heller, Ruth _________________APRIL 2Hemingway, Ernest_____________JULY 21Henkes, Kevin__________NOVEMBER 27Hennessy, B.G. _____________MARCH 10Henry, Marguerite ____________APRIL 13Herman, Charlotte_____________JUNE 10Hermes, Patricia__________FEBRUARY 21Herriot, James ___________OCTOBER 3Hesse, Karen ______________AUGUST 29Hest, Amy___________________APRIL 28Hiaasen, Carl ______________MARCH 12Higgins, Jack __________________JULY 27Hillenbrand, Will ______________MAY 31Hills, Tad ___________________APRIL 1Himmelman, John ________OCTOBER 3Hines, Anna Grossnickle_________JULY 13Hinton, S.E. __________________JULY 22Hiscock, Bruce__________DECEMBER 4Ho, Minfong _____________JANUARY 7Hoban, Lillian _________________MAY 18Hoban, Russell___________FEBRUARY 4Hobbs, Will _______________AUGUST 22Hoberman, Mary Ann_______AUGUST 12Hoff, Syd _____________SEPTEMBER 4

Hoffman, Mary ______________APRIL 20Hogrogian, Nonny _____________MAY 7Holling, Holling C. _________AUGUST 2Holm, Jennifer L.______________JUNE 16Holm, Matthew__________FEBRUARY 24Hopkins, Lee Bennett__________APRIL 13Horowitz, Anthony ___________APRIL 5Horowitz, David ________NOVEMBER 28Houston, Gloria ________NOVEMBER 24Howard, Elizabeth F. _____DECEMBER 28Howard, Ellen _________________MAY 8Howe, Deborah ____________AUGUST 12Howe, James ______________AUGUST 2Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane _________JULY 1Hudson, Cheryl Willis _________APRIL 7Hughes, Dean _____________AUGUST 24Hughes, Langston ________FEBRUARY 1Hughes, Monica ________NOVEMBER 3Hughes, Shirley________________JULY 16Hunt, Irene ___________________MAY 18Hurd, Clement ____________JANUARY 12Hurd, Edith Thacher ____SEPTEMBER 14Hurd, Thacher _____________MARCH 6Hurston, Zora Neale________JANUARY 7Hurwitz, Johanna_________OCTOBER 9Hutchins, Pat_________________JUNE 18Hyman, Trina Schart __________APRIL 8

IiIngpen, Robert ___________OCTOBER 13Irving, Washington ____________APRIL 2

JjJacques, Brian_________________JUNE 15Jakes, John_________________MARCH 31James, Betsy___________________JULY 26Jeffers, Susan_____________OCTOBER 7Jenkins, Steve ______________MARCH 31Johnson, Angela _______________JUNE 18Johnson, Crockett_________OCTOBER 20Johnson, James Weldon _________JUNE 17Johnston, Tony____________JANUARY 30Jonas, Ann _______________JANUARY 28Jones, Marcia Thornton _________JULY 15Joosse, Barbara ___________FEBRUARY 18Joyce, William __________DECEMBER 11Jukes, Mavis___________________MAY 3Juster, Norton ________________JUNE 2

KkKadohata, Cynthia _____________JULY 2Kalman, Bobbie____________AUGUST 29

Kalman, Maira _________NOVEMBER 15Karas, G. Brian_________SEPTEMBER 27Kasza, Keiko____________DECEMBER 23Kaye, Marilyn _________________JULY 19Keats, Ezra Jack_____________MARCH 11Keehn, Sally _______________AUGUST 11Kehret, Peg ____________NOVEMBER 11Keith, Doug _______________MARCH 2Keith, Harold ________________APRIL 8Keller, Charles______________MARCH 30Keller, Helen _________________JUNE 27Keller, Holly_____________FEBRUARY 11Kellogg, Steven ___________OCTOBER 26Kelly, Eric P. _______________MARCH 16Kelly, Katy_____________NOVEMBER 13Kennedy, Anne ________________JULY 25Kennedy, X.J.______________AUGUST 21Kerr, M.E. ____________________MAY 27Kerrin, Jessica Scott______NOVEMBER 15Kessler, Leonard __________OCTOBER 28Ketteman, Helen_______________JULY 1Kimmel, Eric ____________OCTOBER 30King Jr., Martin Luther _____JANUARY 15King-Smith, Dick ___________MARCH 27King, Coretta Scott____________APRIL 27King, Stephen__________SEPTEMBER 21Kinney, Jeff _____________FEBRUARY 19Kipling, Rudyard ________DECEMBER 30Kitamura, Satoshi _____________JUNE 11Kjelgaard, Jim __________DECEMBER 5Klass, David _______________MARCH 8Klass, Sheila Solomon ____NOVEMBER 6Klause, Annette Curtis__________JUNE 20Kline, Suzy________________AUGUST 27Knight, Eric _________________APRIL 10Knight, Hilary__________NOVEMBER 1Koertge, Ron_________________APRIL 22Koller, Jackie French _________MARCH 8Konigsburg, E.L. _________FEBRUARY 10Koontz, Dean _________________JULY 9Koontz, Robin Michal___________JULY 29Korman, Gordon _________OCTOBER 23Kraus, Robert_________________JUNE 21Krauss, Ruth __________________JULY 25Krensky, Stephen________NOVEMBER 25Krisher, Trudy __________DECEMBER 22Kroll, Steven_______________AUGUST 11Kroll, Virginia________________APRIL 28Krosoczka, Jarrett J. ______DECEMBER 22Krulik, Nancy _________________MAY 22Krull, Kathleen ________________JULY 29Krumgold, Joseph_____________APRIL 9Kuklin, Susan __________SEPTEMBER 6Kurtz, Jane __________________APRIL 17Kuskin, Karla__________________JULY 17

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LlL'Engle, Madeleine ______NOVEMBER 29Laminack, Lester _______________JULY 11Landau, Elaine ___________FEBRUARY 15Langstaff, John__________DECEMBER 24Langton, Jane___________DECEMBER 30Lasky, Kathryn________________JUNE 24Latham, Jean Lee _____________APRIL 19Lauber, Patricia___________FEBRUARY 5Law, Ingrid ___________________MAY 1Lawrence, Iain ___________FEBRUARY 25Lawson, Robert __________OCTOBER 4Leaf, Munro____________DECEMBER 4Lear, Edward __________________MAY 12Lee, Harper__________________APRIL 28Leedy, Loreen_________________JUNE 15LeGuin, Ursula K. ________OCTOBER 21Lenski, Lois______________OCTOBER 14Lent, Blair________________JANUARY 22Lessem, Don ___________DECEMBER 2Lester, Alison___________NOVEMBER 17Lester, Helen _________________JUNE 12Lester, Julius ______________JANUARY 27LeTord, Bijou _____________JANUARY 15Levin, Betty____________SEPTEMBER 10Levine, Ellen _______________MARCH 9Levine, Gail Carson _____SEPTEMBER 17Levitin, Sonia______________AUGUST 18Levy, Elizabeth _______________APRIL 4Lewin, Betsy __________________MAY 12Lewin, Ted____________________MAY 6Lewis, C.S._____________NOVEMBER 29Lewis, J. Patrick________________MAY 5Lickona, Thomas _____________APRIL 4Lin, Grace ____________________MAY 17Lindgren, Astrid ________NOVEMBER 14Lindgren, Barbro____________MARCH 18Lionni, Leo ___________________MAY 5Lipsyte, Robert ____________JANUARY 16Lisle, Janet Taylor_________FEBRUARY 13Little, Jean________________JANUARY 2Lobel, Anita _________________JUNE 3Lobel, Arnold__________________MAY 22Locker, Thomas _______________JUNE 26Loewen, Nancy _______________JUNE 20Lofting, Hugh_____________JANUARY 14London, Jack______________JANUARY 12London, Jonathan___________MARCH 11Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ____FEB. 27Lopshire, Robert ______________APRIL 14Lord, Bette Bao _________NOVEMBER 3Lovelace, Maud Hart __________APRIL 25Lowry, Lois ________________MARCH 20Lunn, Janet ____________DECEMBER 28Lupica, Mike _________________MAY 11

Lyon, George Ella _____________APRIL 25Lyons, Mary ___________NOVEMBER 28

MmMacaulay, David ________DECEMBER 2MacBride, Roger Lea ________AUGUST 6MacDonald, Betty___________MARCH 26MacDonald, Suse ___________MARCH 3MacLachlan, Patricia_________MARCH 3Maddox, Jake ________________APRIL 1Maestro, Betsy ____________JANUARY 5Maestro, Guilio ________________MAY 6Maguire, Gregory______________JUNE 9Mah, Adeline Yen _______NOVEMBER 30Mahy, Margaret_____________MARCH 21Major, Kevin___________SEPTEMBER 12Manes, Stephen ___________JANUARY 8Markle, Sandra Lee ______NOVEMBER 10Marshall, James __________OCTOBER 10Martchenko, Michael________AUGUST 1Martin, Ann M.____________AUGUST 12Martin, Bill Jr.______________MARCH 20Martin, Jacqueline Briggs _______APRIL 15Martin, Rafe ______________JANUARY 22Marzollo, Jean ________________JUNE 24Matas, Carol ___________NOVEMBER 14Matheson, Richard _______FEBRUARY 20Mathis, Sharon Bell _______FEBRUARY 26Mayer, Marianna________NOVEMBER 8Mayer, Mercer __________DECEMBER 10Mazer, Anne _________________APRIL 2Mazer, Harry __________________MAY 31Mazer, Norma Fox______________MAY 15McCaffrey, Anne______________APRIL 1McCaughrean, Geraldine________JUNE 6McCloskey, Robert ______SEPTEMBER 15McCully, Emily Arnold__________JULY 1McCunn, Ruthanne L._____FEBRUARY 21McCurdy, Michael ________FEBRUARY 17McDaniel, Lurlene ____________APRIL 5McDermott, Gerald ________JANUARY 31McDonald, Joyce ___________AUGUST 4McDonald, Megan________FEBRUARY 28McDonnell, Christine ___________JULY 3McGovern, Ann________________MAY 25McKay, Hilary ________________JUNE 12McKillip, Patricia _________FEBRUARY 29McKinley, Robin________NOVEMBER 16McKissack, Frederick ________AUGUST 12McKissack, Patricia _________AUGUST 9McMahon, Patricia______SEPTEMBER 1McMillan, Bruce _______________MAY 10McMullan, Kate ___________JANUARY 16McPhail, David _______________JUNE 30Mead, Alice_______________JANUARY 11

Medearis, Angela Shelf ___NOVEMBER 16Meigs, Cornelia _________DECEMBER 6Meltzer, Milton ________________MAY 8Merriam, Eve__________________JULY 19Merrill, Jean ______________JANUARY 27Meyer, Carolyn _______________JUNE 8Meyer, Stephenie ________DECEMBER 24Mikaelsen, Ben _________NOVEMBER 24Miklowitz, Gloria D.____________MAY 18Miles, Miska ___________NOVEMBER 14Milhous, Katherine ______NOVEMBER 27Mills, Claudia _____________AUGUST 21Milne, A.A._______________JANUARY 18Milway, Katie Smith ___________JUNE 2Minarik, Else Holmelund _SEPTEMBER 13Mohr, Nicholasa ________NOVEMBER 1Mollel, Tololwa M. ____________JUNE 25Montgomery, L.M. ______NOVEMBER 30Moore, Clement C._____________JULY 15Moore, Cyd___________________JULY 4Moore, Eva __________________APRIL 16Moore, Lilian ______________MARCH 17Mora, Pat ________________JANUARY 19Morey, Walt _____________FEBRUARY 3Morris, Ann _____________OCTOBER 1Morrison, Toni___________FEBRUARY 18Mosel, Arlene______________AUGUST 27Moss, Marissa __________SEPTEMBER 29Most, Bernard__________SEPTEMBER 2Mourning, Tuesday____________APRIL 5Mowat, Farley _________________MAY 12Munoz, William ___________JANUARY 12Munro, Roxie __________SEPTEMBER 5Munsch, Robert ______________JUNE 11Murphy, Jill ___________________JULY 5Murphy, Jim ___________SEPTEMBER 25Murphy, Stuart J. _____________APRIL 25Musgrove, Margaret _____NOVEMBER 19Myers, Walter Dean_________AUGUST 12

NnNaidoo, Beverley _______________MAY 21Namioka, Lensey ______________JUNE 14Napoli, Donna Jo_________FEBRUARY 28Nash, Ogden ______________AUGUST 19Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds_____JANUARY 4Nelson, Denise Brennan __NOVEMBER 4Nelson, Kadir _________________MAY 15Nelson, Marilyn ______________APRIL 26Nelson, Theresa____________AUGUST 15Ness, Evaline_________________APRIL 24Neville, Emily___________DECEMBER 28Newbery, John_________________JULY 19Nix, Garth____________________JULY 19Nixon, Joan Lowery ______FEBRUARY 3

North, Sterling _________NOVEMBER 4Norton, Mary __________DECEMBER 10Numeroff, Laura Joffe ___________JULY 14Nye, Naomi Shihab__________MARCH 12

OoO'Brien, Robert C._________JANUARY 11O'Connor, Jane _________DECEMBER 30O'Dell, Scott __________________MAY 23O'Hara, Mary _________________JULY 10O'Henry ______________SEPTEMBER 11O'Malley, Kevin ________SEPTEMBER 8Oliver, Lin ______________FEBRUARY 2Oppel, Kenneth ____________AUGUST 31Orgel, Doris _____________FEBRUARY 15Orlev, Uri _______________FEBRUARY 24Ormerod, Jan __________SEPTEMBER 23Osborne, Mary Pope ____________MAY 20Otfinosky, Steven __________JANUARY 11Oxenbury, Helen ______________JUNE 2

PpPalatini, Margie_________NOVEMBER 25Pallotta, Jerry_______________MARCH 26Paolini, Christopher _____NOVEMBER 17Park, Barbara ________________APRIL 27Park, Linda Sue_____________MARCH 25Parker, Marjorie ____________MARCH 2Parker, Steve____________DECEMBER 7Parrish, Peggy _________________JULY 14Pascal, Francine ________________MAY 13Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw_______APRIL 30Paterson, Katherine _______OCTOBER 31Patron, Susan ______________MARCH 18Patterson, James ____________MARCH 22Paulsen, Gary__________________MAY 17Pearson, Susan __________DECEMBER 21Peck, Richard ________________APRIL 5Peck, Robert Newton______FEBRUARY 17Peet, Bill _________________JANUARY 29Perkins, Lynne Rae _____________JULY 31Perrault, Charles ___________JANUARY 12Perrotta, Tom______________AUGUST 13Peschke, Marci ________________MAY 18Petersen, P.J. _____________OCTOBER 23Petersham, Maud___________AUGUST 5Pfeffer, Susan Beth ________FEBRUARY 17Pfister, Marcus_________________JULY 30Phelan, Matt __________________MAY 5Picoult, Jodi __________________MAY 19Pierce, Meredith Ann ___________JULY 5Pierce, Tamora__________DECEMBER 13Pilkey, Dav ________________MARCH 4

Pinkney, Andrea Davis ___SEPTEMBER 25Pinkney, Brian _____________AUGUST 28Pinkney, Gloria Jean _____SEPTEMBER 5Pinkney, Jerry___________DECEMBER 22Pinkwater, Daniel _______NOVEMBER 15Poe, Edgar Allan ___________JANUARY 19Polacco, Patricia________________JULY 11Pomerantz, Charlotte ___________JULY 24Porter, Connie_________________JULY 29Porter, Eleanor H. _______DECEMBER 19Potter, Beatrix _________________JULY 28Pratchett, Terry ______________APRIL 28Preller, James ____________FEBRUARY 1Prelutsky, Jack__________SEPTEMBER 8Priceman, Marjorie_________JANUARY 8Primavera, Elise ________________MAY 19Pringle, Laurence________NOVEMBER 26Provensen, Alice____________AUGUST 14Pryor, Bonnie___________DECEMBER 22Pullman, Philip___________OCTOBER 19Pyle, Howard ______________MARCH 5

QqQuackenbush, Robert ___________JULY 23Quattlebaum, Mary_____________MAY 2

RrRaffi_________________________JULY 8Rand, Ted _____________DECEMBER 27Ransome, Arthur __________JANUARY 18Ransome, James E. ______SEPTEMBER 25Rappaport, Doreen________OCTOBER 31Raschka, Chris _____________MARCH 6Raskin, Ellen_______________MARCH 13Rathmann, Peggy ___________MARCH 4Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan ___AUGUST 8Rawls, Wilson__________SEPTEMBER 24Ray, Deborah Kogan ________AUGUST 31Rayner, Mary ___________DECEMBER 30Reeder, Carolyn_________NOVEMBER 16Reid, Barbara ________________APRIL 18Reiser, Lynn___________________JULY 28Reiss, Johanna________________APRIL 4Reit, Seymour __________NOVEMBER 11Rey, H.A. _____________SEPTEMBER 16Rey, Margret __________________MAY 16Rice, James______________FEBRUARY 11Ride, Sally ____________________MAY 26Rinaldi, Ann ______________AUGUST 27Ringgold, Faith___________OCTOBER 8Riordan, Rick_________________JUNE 5Robbins, Ruth __________DECEMBER 29Roberts, Willo Davis ____________MAY 29

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Robinson, Barbara ________OCTOBER 24Rocklin, Joanne_____________MARCH 7Rockwell, Anne __________FEBRUARY 8Rockwell, Thomas __________MARCH 13Rodgers, Mary ____________JANUARY 11Rodowsky, Colby _________FEBRUARY 26Rogers, Fred _______________MARCH 20Rogers, Jacqueline ______________JULY 17Rohmann, Eric ___________OCTOBER 26Roop, Peter ________________MARCH 8Roos, Stephen ___________FEBRUARY 9Ross, Pat________________FEBRUARY 4Ross, Tony________________AUGUST 10Rostkowski, Margaret_______JANUARY 12Roth, Susan L. ___________FEBRUARY 29Rowling, J.K.__________________JULY 31Roy, Jennifer __________________MAY 26Roy, Ron____________________APRIL 29Rubel, Nicole ________________APRIL 29Ruby, Lois_____________SEPTEMBER 11Ryan, Pam Muñoz_______DECEMBER 25Ryder, Joanne __________SEPTEMBER 16Rylant, Cynthia _______________JUNE 6

SsSabuda, Robert _____________MARCH 8Sachar, Louis _______________MARCH 20Sachs, Marilyn __________DECEMBER 18Sadler, Marilyn _________NOVEMBER 17Salinger, J.D.______________JANUARY 1Salisbury, Graham_____________APRIL 11Salley, Coleen______________AUGUST 7San Souci, Daniel _________OCTOBER 10San Souci, Robert D. ______OCTOBER 10Sandburg, Carl ____________JANUARY 6Sandin, Joan _________________APRIL 30Savage, Deborah_________DECEMBER 15Say, Allen _________________AUGUST 28Sayre, April Pulley_____________APRIL 11Scarry, Richard _______________JUNE 5Schachner, Judith Byron _____AUGUST 20Schertle, Alice ________________APRIL 7Schnur, Steven _______________APRIL 8Schoenherr, John_______________JULY 5Schories, Pat __________________JULY 30Schroeder, Alan____________JANUARY 18Schulz, Charles _________NOVEMBER 26Schwartz, Alvin_______________APRIL 25Schwartz, Amy _______________APRIL 2Schwartz, David M.______NOVEMBER 29Scieszka, Jon ___________SEPTEMBER 8Scott, Ann Herbert ______NOVEMBER 19Seabrooke, Brenda______________MAY 21Seibold, J. Otto____________JANUARY 3Seibold, Jan______________OCTOBER 26

Selden, George_________________MAY 14Selznick, Brian_________________JULY 14Sendak, Maurice ______________JUNE 10Seredy, Kate____________NOVEMBER 10Seuss, Dr. _________________MARCH 2Sewall, Marcia __________NOVEMBER 5Sewell, Anna _______________MARCH 30Shakespeare, William __________APRIL 23Shan, Darren__________________JULY 2Shange, Ntozake__________OCTOBER 18Shannon, David __________OCTOBER 5Shannon, George _________FEBRUARY 14Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman _____NOV. 12Sharmat, Mitchell _____________APRIL 18Shaw, Nancy _________________APRIL 27Shelley, Mary ______________AUGUST 30Showers, Paul ________________APRIL 12Shreve, Susan__________________MAY 2Shulevitz, Uri ____________FEBRUARY 27Shusterman, Neal _______NOVEMBER 12Sidman, Joyce_________________JUNE 4Siebold, Jan______________OCTOBER 26Sierra, Judy___________________JUNE 8Silverman, Erica________________MAY 21Silverstein, Shel_________SEPTEMBER 25Silverstein, Virginia B.__________APRIL 3Simon, Seymour ___________AUGUST 9Simont, Marc __________NOVEMBER 23Singer, Isaac Bashevis____________JULY 14Singer, Marilyn___________OCTOBER 3Sis, Peter _____________________MAY 11Skurzynski, Gloria______________JULY 6Sleator, William __________FEBRUARY 13Slobodkin, Louis _________FEBRUARY 19Slobodkina, Esphyr______SEPTEMBER 22Small, David_____________FEBRUARY 12Smith, Audrey _________________MAY 25Smith, Betty____________DECEMBER 15Smith, Cynthia Leitich____DECEMBER 31Smith, Jeff ______________FEBRUARY 27Smith, Lane _______________AUGUST 25Smith, Robert Kimmel __________JULY 31Smith, Roland __________NOVEMBER 30Smith, Susan Mathias_______JANUARY 23Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk _____FEB. 21Snicket, Lemony _________FEBRUARY 28Snyder, Zilpha Keatley___________MAY 11So, Meilo _______________OCTOBER 24Sobol, Donald J. __________OCTOBER 4Sonnenblick, Jordan ____________JULY 4Soto, Gary___________________APRIL 12Speare, Elizabeth George __NOVEMBER 21Sperry, Armstrong _______NOVEMBER 7Spier, Peter __________________JUNE 6Spinelli, Eileen _____________AUGUST 16Spinelli, Jerry ____________FEBRUARY 1

Spinner, Stephanie_______NOVEMBER 16Spyri, Johanna_________________JULY 12St. George, Judith_________FEBRUARY 26Stanley, Diane __________DECEMBER 27Staples, Suzanne Fisher ______AUGUST 27Stead, Erin E. ___________DECEMBER 27Stead, Rebecca ____________JANUARY 16Steele, Mary Q._______________APRIL 8Steig, William __________NOVEMBER 14Stein, David Ezra __________JANUARY 27Steptoe, Javaka _______________APRIL 19Steptoe, John___________SEPTEMBER 14Stevens, Janet _____________JANUARY 17Stevenson, James _______________JULY 11Stevenson, Robert Louis __NOVEMBER 13Stevenson, Sucie ____________MARCH 29Stewart, Mary __________SEPTEMBER 17Stewart, Sarah _____________AUGUST 27Stine, R.L._______________OCTOBER 8Stoker, Bram ___________NOVEMBER 8Stolz, Mary ________________MARCH 28Stone, Jeff_________________AUGUST 5Stowe, Harriet Beecher__________JUNE 14Strasser, Todd _________________MAY 5Sullivan, George____________AUGUST 11Sutcliff, Rosemary _______DECEMBER 14Sutton, Jane___________________MAY 11Sweat, Lynn___________________MAY 27Sweeney, Joan ____________OCTOBER 2Swift, Jonathan _________NOVEMBER 30

TtTaback, Simms___________FEBRUARY 13Tafuri, Nancy___________NOVEMBER 14Tate, Eleanora E.______________APRIL 16Taylor, Mildred _________SEPTEMBER 13Taylor, Theodore ______________JUNE 23Teague, Mark ____________FEBRUARY 10Terban, Marvin_______________APRIL 28Thaler, Mike_____________OCTOBER 8Thomas, Jane Resh _________AUGUST 15Thomas, Joyce Carol ____________MAY 25Thompson, Colin_________OCTOBER 18Thurber, James__________DECEMBER 8Tolan, Stephanie S.________OCTOBER 25Tolkien, J.R.R. ____________JANUARY 3Tompert, Ann_____________JANUARY 11Tresselt, Alvin __________SEPTEMBER 30Tripp, Valerie___________SEPTEMBER 12Tudor, Tasha ______________AUGUST 28Turner, Ann ____________DECEMBER 10Turner, Megan Whalen ___NOVEMBER 21Twain, Mark ___________NOVEMBER 30

UuUchida, Yoshiko_________NOVEMBER 24Udry, Janice __________________JUNE 14Uegaki, Chieri ___________FEBRUARY 21Ullman, James Ramsey ___NOVEMBER 24Ungerer, Tomi__________NOVEMBER 28

VvVail, Rachel ___________________JULY 25Van Allsburg, Chris ____________JUNE 18Van Draanen, Wendelin_____ JANUARY 6Van Laan, Nancy ________NOVEMBER 18Van Leeuwen, Jean ______DECEMBER 26VanCleave, Janice __________JANUARY 27Vande Velde, Vivian ____________JUNE 18Velasquez, Eric ________________MAY 29Verne, Jules______________FEBRUARY 8Viorst, Judith ____________FEBRUARY 2Voigt, Cynthia ___________FEBRUARY 25

WwWaber, Bernard_________SEPTEMBER 27Waddell, Martin ______________APRIL 10Wahl, Jan ___________________APRIL 1Walker, Alice ____________FEBRUARY 9Walker, Barbara __________OCTOBER 13Wallace, Barbara Brooks___DECEMBER 3Wallace, Bill _______________AUGUST 1Walsh, Ellen Stoll _______SEPTEMBER 2Walsh, Jill Paton ______________APRIL 29Walter, Mildred Pitts_____SEPTEMBER 9Warner, Gertrude Chandler _____APRIL 16Warnock, Natalie Kinsey__NOVEMBER 2Waters, Kate ___________SEPTEMBER 4Watson, Richard Jesse_______JANUARY 15Watson, Wendy________________JULY 7Watts, Bernadette ______________MAY 13Wells, H.G.____________SEPTEMBER 21Wells, Rosemary ___________JANUARY 29Werlin, Nancy____________OCTOBER 29Wersba, Barbara____________AUGUST 19Westcott, Nadine Bernard________JULY 24Wheeler, Lisa _____________JANUARY 3Whelan, Gloria _________NOVEMBER 23White, E.B. ___________________JULY 11White, Ruth _______________MARCH 15White, T.H.___________________MAY 29Wick, Walter ____________FEBRUARY 23Wiesner, David___________FEBRUARY 5Wiggin, Kate___________SEPTEMBER 28Wilde, Oscar_____________OCTOBER 16Wilder, Laura Ingalls ______FEBRUARY 7Wildsmith, Brian __________JANUARY 22Wiles, Deborah ________________MAY 7

Wilhelm, Hans _________SEPTEMBER 21Willard, Nancy________________JUNE 26Willems, Mo ____________FEBRUARY 11Williams, Barbara__________JANUARY 1Williams, Carol Lynch ___SEPTEMBER 28Williams, Linda ___________JANUARY 6Williams, Margery______________JULY 22Williams, Vera B. __________JANUARY 28Williams-Garcia, Ruth _________APRIL 13Wilson, Karma ___________OCTOBER 8Wing, Natasha ___________FEBRUARY 7Winkler, Henry __________OCTOBER 30Winter, Jeannette _________OCTOBER 6Winthrop, Elizabeth _____SEPTEMBER 14Wisler, G. Clifton ______________MAY 15Wisniewski, David __________MARCH 21Wolf, Bernard____________FEBRUARY 26Wolff, Ashley _____________JANUARY 26Wolff, Virginia Euwer _______AUGUST 25Wong, Janet S. _________SEPTEMBER 30Wood, Don ___________________MAY 4Wood, Douglas _________DECEMBER 10Woodruff, Elvira_______________JUNE 19Woodson, Jacqueline ______FEBRUARY 12Worth, Valerie____________OCTOBER 29Wrede, Patricia C. ___________MARCH 27Wright, Betty Ren _____________JUNE 15Wynne-Jones, Diana ________AUGUST 16Wynne-Jones, Tim__________AUGUST 12

YyYaccarino, Dan ________________MAY 20Yashima, Taro__________SEPTEMBER 21Yates, Elizabeth _________DECEMBER 6Yee, Paul ________________OCTOBER 1Yep, Laurence_________________JUNE 14Yolen, Jane ______________FEBRUARY 11Yorinks, Arthur ____________AUGUST 21Young, Ed _____________NOVEMBER 28Young, Judy _____________FEBRUARY 13

ZzZalben, Jane Breskin___________APRIL 21Zarr, Sara _______________OCTOBER 3Zelinsky, Paul O. _________FEBRUARY 14Zemach, Harve _________DECEMBER 5Zemach, Kaethe ____________MARCH 18Zemach, Margot ________NOVEMBER 30Ziefert, Harriet ________________JULY 7Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn ________APRIL 21Zindel, Paul ___________________MAY 15Zion, Gene ______________OCTOBER 5Zolotow, Charlotte_____________JUNE 26Zwerger, Lisbeth _______________MAY 26

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Contentment - Ability to live in a state ofpeaceful composure finding satisfaction withinyour circumstances.

Adaptability - Readiness and willingness toadjust as neccessary to the changes in people and circumstances that arise in daily life.

Integrity - Recognized virtue and uprightness of character.

Self-confidence - Trusting your abilities andbeing positive about yourself.

Loving-kindness - Being gentle, willing to help,friendly, courteous, and considerate.

Friendliness - A sincere openness to accept others socially.

Teamwork - Taking action as a group to achievea common goal.

Benevolence - Having a general desire for thegood of others, and disposition to act so as to further that good.

Anti-Bully - Treating others in a way that doesnot intimidate by hurting or humiliation in a verbal, emotional or physical way as to causedominance.

Sense of Humor - A cheerful view on adversityas to cope, support happiness, and make otherssmile and laugh.

Self-Sacrifice - Delaying what you would likefor even one individual or the benefit of many.

Optimistic - Able to visualize the positive sideof things.

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The first Magic Tree House book was published in 1992, introducing the world to Jack and Annie, a brother and sister whodiscover a magical tree house filled withbooks. With the help of their friends from the kingdom of Camelot, they use researchbooks, riddles, codes, and courage to solveproblems, complete missions, and help thosein need.

In 2000, the first two Magic Tree House Fact Trackers (originally known as ResearchGuides) came out, co-written by Mary PopeOsborne and her husband, Will Osborne.These nonfiction companions to the MagicTree House books give readers a fun and easy way to find out more about their favorite places, time periods, and subjects.After the first eight titles, Mary’s sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, came on board to co-author with Mary.

The Magic Tree House books are number oneNew York Times bestsellers. With more thanseventy million copies sold in North Americaalone, they have been translated into manylanguages and are available in more than thirty countries around the world.

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As defined by Dr. Thomas Lickona, authorof Character Matters, character educationis the deliberate effort to develop virtuesthat are good for the individual and goodfor society. The objective goodness ofvirtues is based on the fact that they:

Affirm our human dignity

Promote the well-being and happiness of the indvidual

Serve the common good

Define our rights and obligations

Meet the classical ethical tests of:Reversibility Would you want to be treated this way?Universalizability Would you want all persons to act this way in a similar situation?

Good Character Has Two Big PartsPerformance Character –– all the virtues such as effort,

diligence, positive attitude, and perseverance thathelp us do our best work.

Moral Character –– all the virtues such as honesty,respect, fairness, and caring that help us be our bestin relationships.

We Will Have The Most Success In TeachingAny Given Virtue If We Use The 7 E’s.

Explain ItDefine it, describe it (what does it look like?),

and discuss its importance.Examine ItIn literature, history, and current events.Exhibit ItThrough your personal example.Expect ItThrough mutually understood rules and consequences.Experience ItIn everyday relationships and activities.Encourage ItThrough goal-setting and daily practice.Evaluate ItThrough feedback and student self-assessment.

First-grade teacher Jan Gorman shows how to use the7 E’s to unlock the character-building power of children’s literature. She teaches a virtue a week, beginning with caring. She gathers her students in a circle and elicits their thoughts about the following questions, making a visual web of their responses:

• What is caring?• Why is it important?• How can each of us show caring? In our classroom?

Our school? Our families?

She then reads a picture book that exemplifies thetheme of caring: Peter Golenbock’s Teammates. It tellsthe story of how Brooklyn Dodgers Captain Pee WeeReese stood by Jackie Robinson when Jackie facedracism, even from some of his teammates, for being thefirst black man to play major league baseball. After thestory, the teacher conducts a discussion, asking: “Whoin the story showed caring? Who did not show caring?”

Then she says, “I want you to remember this story andmake it your goal to show caring toward each otherduring the rest of the day.” When a child behaves incaring way, she publicly compliments that child. If achild behaves in an unkind way, she gently correctsthat student privately: “Did that behavior show caring?Remember our story. . . remember our discussion.”

On each subsequent day of the week, she reads a different children’s book about caring, followed by another class discussion. She repeats her challenge tochildren to act in a caring way and again looks foropportunities to compliment or correct their behavior.

“By the end of the week,” she says, “caring has been established as an expectation in my classroom.” During the following weeks, she repeats this processwith different virtues such as courtesy, courage, and perseverance.

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––Thomas Lickona, Director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), www.cortland.edu/character; author, Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgement, Integrity, and Other EssentialVirtues (Touchstone, 2004).

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