Library Lady

Every month I post the birthdays of our students, faculty and staff in the window between the library and the school hallway. I also try to include the birthdays of authors, illustrators and famous people the kiddos may be familiar with or should be.

Since many schools are shut down next week for Thanksgiving break, I thought I’d post this a little earlier than usual.

Here are some famous birthdays for December 2019:

December Birthdays http://holidayinsights.com/bday/ and calendar from Perma Bound

1 Jan Brett, author

2 David Macaulay, author

3 Barbara Brooks Wallace, author

4 Munro Leaf, author

5 Jim Kjelgaard, author

5 Harve Zemach, author

5 Walt Disney

5 Martin Van Buren, president

5 General Custer

6 Cornelia Meigs, author

8 Eli Whitney, inventor

9 Grace Hopper, computer scientist

9 Joan W. Blos, author

9 Jean de Brunhoff, author

10 Emily Dickinson, author

10 Mary Norton, author

10 Ada Lovelace, mathematician

10 Melvil Dewey, librarian

11 William Joyce, author

12 Barbara Emberley, author

13 Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady

14 James Doolittle, World War II aviator

15 Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer

15 Ann Nolan Clark, author

18 Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player

19 Eve Bunting, author

19 Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer

20 Richard Atwater, author

20 Sandra Cisneros, author

20 Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer

22 Jerry Pinkney, author

22 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

23 Avi, author

24 James Prescott Joule, physicist

24 Mary Higgins Clark, author

25 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist

25 Pam Munoz Ryan, author

25 Eth Clifford, author

25 Clara Barton, nurse

27 Ingri D’Aulaire, author

27 Johannes Kepler, astronomer

27 Louis Pasteur, chemist

28 Carol Ryrie Brink, author

28 Woodrow Wilson, President

29 Andrew Johnson, President

29 Molly Bang, author

30 Rudyard Kipling, author

30 Mercer Mayer, author

31 Cynthia Leitich Smith, author

31 Henri Matisse, painter

Who will you celebrate?