Celebrating March Authors

Many authors and illustrators have touched our minds and hearts. One way to celebrate them is to introduce or revisit their contributions on their birthdays.

This list will remind you of authors you already love and, ideally, introduce you to a few you haven’t encountered yet. You’ll find titles to interest all ages. Check them out from your local or school library, or click the Amazon links. (Chapter Book=C, Early Chapter Book=EC, Early Reader=ER, Graphic Novels=GN, Picture Book=P, Nonfiction=NF)

Click on the link to learn more about each title.

March 1—Lupita Nyong’o

• Sulwe—P

March 3—Patricia MacLachlan

• Waiting for the Magic—C
• The Poet’s Dog—C
• Word After Word After Word—C
• Just Dance—C
• Once I Ate a Pie—NF (poetry)
• Someone Like Me—P

March 4—Dav Pilkey

• Captain Underpants (series)—GN
• Dog Man (series)—GN
• Ricky Ricotta (series)—GN
• The Paperboy—P
• The Hallo-Wiener—P
• Dragon’s Fat Cat—ER

March 4—Peggy Rathmann

• Good Night, Gorilla—P
• Officer Buckle and Gloria—P
• Ruby the Copycat—P
• The Day the Babies Crawled Away—P

March 5—Mem Fox

• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge—P
• Koala Lou—P
• Tough Boris—P

March 6—Chris Raschka

• A Ball for Daisy—P
• Yo! Yes?—P

March 7—Kelly DiPucchio

• Dragon Was Terrible—P
• Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Pet—P

March 11—Ezra Jack Keats

• The Snowy Day—P
• Whistle for Willie—P
• Peter’s Chair—P
• Goggles!—P

March 11—Jonathan London

• Froggy Gets Dressed—P
• Hippos Are Huge!—NF
• Flamingo Sunset—NF

March 16—Giles Andreae

• Giraffes Can’t Dance—P

March 16—Peter H. Reynolds

• The Dot—P
• Ish—P
• The Word Collector—P
• Sky Color—P
• Say Something!—P

March 17—Patrick McDonnell

• Me . . . Jane—P
• A Perfectly Messed-Up Story—P
• The Monsters’ Monster—P
• The Gift of Nothing—P
• The Little Red Cat Who Ran Away and Learned His ABC’s (the Hard Way)—P

March 20—Lois Lowry

• Number the Stars—C
• Gathering Blue—C
• Gooney Bird Greene—EC

March 20—Bill Martin Jr.

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?—P
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom—P
• Spunky Little Monkey—P

March 20—Louis Sachar

• There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom—C
• Holes (series)—C
• Wayside School (series)—C

March 21—Leslie Helakoski

• Big Chickens—P

March 25—Kate DiCamillo

• Because of Winn-Dixie—C
• The Tale of Despereaux—C
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane—C
• Raymie Nightingale—C
• Mercy Watson (series)—EC
• The Beatryce Prophecy—C

March 25—Linda Sue Park

• A Long Walk to Water—C
• Prairie Lotus—C
• Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time—P

March 26—Jerry Pallotta

• Who Would Win? (series)—NF

March 27—Dick King-Smith

• Babe: The Gallant Pig—C

March 27—Patricia C. Wrede

• Enchanted Forest Chronicles (series)—C

March 29—Debbie Ridpath Ohi

• Where Are My Books?—P
• Sam & Eva—P

March 30—Anna Sewell

• Black Beauty—C

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