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.
Here is the list for October 2019:
10/3 Natalie Savage Carlson, author
10/3 James Herriot, author
10/4 Karen Cushman, author
10/4 Robert Lawson, author
10/4 Donald Sobol, author
10/5 Louise Fitzhugh, author
10/5 David Shannon, author
10/5 Gene Zion, author
10/6 Jeanette Winter, author
10/7 Alice Dalgliesh, author
10/9 Katherine Applegate, author
10/10 James Marshall, author
10/11 Russell Freedman, author
10/14 Lois Lenski, author
10/16 Oscar Wilde, author
10/19 Ed Emberly, author
10/19 Dan Gutman, author
10/20 Crockett Johnson, author
10/20 Nikki Grimes, author
10/21 Ursula LeGuin, author
10/23 Marjorie Flack, author
10/23 Gordon Korman, author
10/26 Steven Kellogg, author
10/26 Eric Rohmann, author
10/30 Henry Winkler, author
10/31 Katherine Paterson, author
10/31 Doreen Rappaport, author