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Author and Illustrator Almanac

June 2007

June 1

John Masefield 1878-1967
http://www.publishingcentral.com/masefield/
http://greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/masefield.htm

James Daugherty-1889-1974
http://www.acmefineart.com/bio-daugherty.htm
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/html/clrc/clrc0122.html

R. R. Knudson-1932-
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/knudson.htm

Doris Buchanan Smith-1934-2002
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?AuthorId=12747

Sandra Scopperttone-1936-
http://www.booksnbytes.com/authors/scoppettone_sandra.html

Judith Whitelock McInerney-1945-

Leah Komaiko-1954-
http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=12329

Don Gallo

June 2

Paul Galdone-1914-1986
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=3709

Lester Del Rey-1915-1993
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Lester_del_Rey.htm

William Loren Katz-1927-
http://www.williamlkatz.com/

Norton Juster-1929-
http://www.underdown.org/juster.htm
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/phantom_tollbooth/
http://www.powells.com/authors/juster.html
http://dir.salon.com/books/int/2001/03/12/juster/index.html

George Mendoza-1934-

Helen Oxenbury-1938-
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/ylg/ylr/helen.html
http://www.myhomelibrary.org/bookmarks/
bookmarks_oxenbury.html


Michael Emberley-1960-

Jeff Kindley 1945-

June 3

Robert Newman-1909-1988

Kaye Starbird-1916-

Margaret Cosgrove-1926-
Anita Lobel-1934-
http://www.anitalobel.com/

June 4

Richard L. Knudson-1930-

Teri Martini-1930-

Betsy Lee-1949-
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/3311/

June 5

Ilse-Margaret Vogel-1914-
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/html/clrc/clrc0192.html

Franklyn M. Branley-1915-2002
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/
DG0112f.html?DG0112b.html~mainFrame


Richard Scarry-1919-1994
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/scarry.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/scarry.htm

Alice Low-1926-
http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=6042

Irene Haas-1929-

Allan Ahlberg-1938-1995
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ahlberg.htm

Louise Lawrence-1943-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Louise_Lawrence.htm

June 6

Will James-1892-1942
http://www.willjames.org/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/james_will.html

Verna Aardema-1911-2000
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/aardema.htm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/aardema.htm
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/aardema.htm
Maxine Kumin-1925-
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/94
http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/poetry/p-kumin.html
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kumin/kumin.htm
Miriam Schlein-1926-2004

Peter Spier-1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/spier.htm
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dcorley/authors/Spier.htm

Arnold Dobrin-1928-

Roy Innis-1934-

Linda Hayward-1943-

Cynthia Rylant-1954- http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/rylant.htm

June 7

Patricia Lynch-1898-1972
http://www.catholicauthors.com/lynch.html

Jeannette Eyerly-1908-

John Goodall-1908-1996

Gwendolyn Brooks-1917-2000

Georgess McHargue-1941-

Nikki Giovanni-1943-

June 8

Ivan Southall-1921-

Carolyn (Mae) Meyer-1935-

Penny Dale-1954-

June 9

Patricia Clapp-1912-

Cheryl Zack-1947-

June 10

Nat Hentoff-1925-
http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=hentoff.html

Maurice Sendak-1928-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sendak.htm
Aranka Siegel-1930-

Phyllis LaFarge-1933-

Chap Reaver-1935-1993

Charlotte Herman-1937-

June 11

Betty Jean Lifton-1926-

Robert N. Munsch-1945-
http://www.robertmunsch.com/
http://www.annickpress.com/ai/munsch.html
Satoshi Kitamura-1956-

June 12

Charles Kingsley-1819-1875

Shizuye Takashima-1928-

Anne Frank-1929-1945
http://www.annefrank.nl

Helen Lester-1936-

T. A. Kennedy-1953-

Hilary McKay-1959-

June 13

Niki Daly-1946-
http://www.childlit.org.za/ndaly.html

Alexandra Sheedy-1962-

June 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe-1811-1896
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/StoweHB.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/riedy/hbs.html
http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/
clspg149.htm

http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/stowe1.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hbstowe.htm

Judith Kerr-1923-
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Authors/default.aspx?id=3128

Janice Udry-1928-
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/udry.htm

Lensey Namioka-1929- http://www.lensey.com/index.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/namioka.html

Bruce N. Degen-1932-
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/books/authors/
http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=11998

Penelope Farmer-1939-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Penelope_Farmer.htm

Lawrence Yep-1948-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/yep.html

James Gurney-1958-

June 15

Betty Ren Wright-1927-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Betty_Ren_Wright.htm
http://www.sff.net/people/jackbyrne/BRwright.htm

Shirley Glubok-1933-
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/glubok.htm

Brian Jacques-1939- http://www.redwall.org/dave/jacques.html

Louis Phillips-1942-

Loreen Leedy-1959-

June 16

Zachary Ball-1897-

Isabelle Holland-1920-2002
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/holland.htm

Paul Rogers-1950-

June 17

Elizabeth Enright-1909-1968
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/enright.htm
http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/lac/notable/1989notable.htm

Anthony Jasper Maitland-1935-

Robbie Branscum-1937-1997

Susi Bohdal-1951-

James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938

June 18

Donald Keene-1922-

Pat Hutchins-1942-
http://www.titch.net
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/hutchins.html

Pam Conrad-1947-

Chris Van Allsburg-1949-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/allsburg.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/cva/index.html
http://www.hminet.com/store/catalog
Connie Roop-1951-

Angela Johnson-1961-
http://www.unomaha.edu/~unochlit/johnson.html

Vivian Vande Velde-1951-

June 19

Ernest T. Crichlow-1914-2005

Robert Gold-1924-

Elvira Woodruff-1951-

June 20

Anne Colver-1908-1991

Robb Winter-1926-

Jane White-1909-

Betty Baker-1928-

Lou Ann Gaeddert-1931-

Dan Greenburg-1936-

Annette Curtis Klause-1953- http://www.childrensbookguild.org/klause.htm
http://eve7k.com/klause/

June 21

Rockwell Kent-1882-1971
http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/quest/capra/rk/html%20files/wil_ind.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kent_rockwell.html
http://organizations.plattsburgh.edu/museum/kentkent.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/aug00/
kent.html


Mary Elting-1906-2005

Patricia Wrightson-1921-
http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/Authors/author-profile.cfm?AuthorId=0000001970

Margaret Coughlan-1925-

Robert Kraus-1925-
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=12335

June 22

Margaret Sidney-1844-1924

Lisl Weil-1910-

Jan Mark-1943-

June 23

Theodore Taylor-1921-
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/ttaylor.html
http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/msbeauregn/author.htm
http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/cay.htm

June 24

Betty Cavanna-1909-2001
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/cavanna.htm

John Ciardi-1916-1986 http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C000C0E
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=84779

Leonard Everett Fisher-1924-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/fisher.htm

Alice McLerran-1933-

Rodney Peppe-1934-

Jean Marzollo-1942-

Kathryn Lasky Knight-1944-

Nadine Westcott-1949-

June 25

Elizabeth Orton Jones-1910-2005

Eric Carle-1929-

Louis Sabin-1930-

Charles Robinson-1931-

Jane Sarnoff-1937-

Elizabeth-Ann Sachs-1946-

Tololwa M. Mollel-1952-
http://www.writersunion.ca/m/mollel.htm
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2899
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mollel.htm

Pearl Buck-1892-1973

June 26

Lynd Ward-1905-1987
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/ward.htm
http://www.bpib.com/lyndward.htm

Milton Lomask-1909-

Charlotte Zolotow-1915-
http://www.charlottezolotow.com/
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/Zolotow.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/zolotow.htm
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/zolotow.html
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=12952

Walter Farley-1915-1989
http://www.theblackstallion.com/

Joe Lasker-1919-

Dorothy Van Woerkom-1924-
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/vanwoerkom.htm

Robert Burch-1925-

Barbara Brenner-1925-

Milton Glaser-1929-

Nancy Willard-1936-
http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/91/1576/
http://www.nimblespirit.com/html/
featured_author_nancy_willard.htm

http://www.umich.edu/~mqr/willard.htm
http://www.carr.org/read/newbery-nancy.htm
Wallace Tripp-1940-

Tor Seidler-1952-

B. B. Calhoun-1961-

June 27

Helen Sewell-1896-1957

Charles Coombs-1914-1994

James Lincoln Collier-1928-

Lucille Clifton-1936-

Alvin Granowsky-1936-

Helen Keller-1880-1968

June 28

Esther Forbes-1891-1967
Anne Pelowski-1933-
Bette Greene-1934- http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/greene.htm
Dennis Haseley-1950-

June 29

Antoine de Saint Exupery-1900-1944
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/saintexupery.htm
http://www.westegg.com/exupery/

Janet Tashjian-1956-

June 30

Eleanor Lattimore-1904-1986

Mary Kay Phelan-1914-2003

Mollie Hunter-1922-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hunter.htm

Ray Cruz-1933-

David McPhail-1940-
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/mcphaildavid/
index.htm


 
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