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 September 2019:
Jim Arnosky, author 9/1
Bernard Most, author 9/2
Aliki, author 9/3
Syd Hoff, author 9/4
Paul Fleischman, author 9/5
Toni DiTerlizzi, author 9/6
Jack Prelutsky, author 9/8
Jon Scieszka, author 9/8
- O. Henry, author 9/11
Valerie Tripp, author 9/12
Roald Dahl, author 9/13
Mildred Taylor, author 9/13
William H. Armstrong, author 9/14
Edith Thacher Hurd, author 9/14
James Fenimore Cooper, author 9/15
Tomie dePaola, author 9/15
Robert McCloskey, author 9/15
H.A. Rey, author 9/16
Elizabeth Enright, author 9/17
Gail Carson Levine, author 9/17
Rachel Field, author 9/19
Donald Hall, author 9/20
H.G. Wells, author 9/21
Taro Yashima, author 9/21
Esphyre Slobodkina, author 9/22
Wilson Rawls, author 9/24
Jim Murphy, author 9/25
Shel Silverstein, author 9/25
Andrea Davis Pinkney, author 9/25
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) 9/26
T.S. Eliot, author 9/26
Paul Goble, author 9/27
Bernard Waber, author 9/27
Stan Berenstain, author 9/29
Edgar D’Aulaire, author 9/30
Alvin Tresselt, author 9/30
Which birthdays will you celebrate and how will you do it?