Celebrating October Authors
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One way to celebrate the many authors and illustrators who have touched our minds and hearts 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 of interest for all ages. Check them out from your local or school library or click the Amazon links. (C=Chapter Book, EC=Early Chapter Book, P=Picture Book)
October 4—Karen Cushman
Rodzina (C)
October 4—Donald J. Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown (C series)
October 5—Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet the Spy (C)
October 5—David Shannon
No, David! (P)
Duck on a Bike (P)
Alice the Fairy (P)
Too Many Toys (P)
Bugs in My Hair! (P)
October 8—R. L. Stine
Goosebumps (C series)
October 10—James Marshall
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (P)
Red Riding Hood (P)
Fox and His Friends (EC)
October 10—Robert D. San Souci
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (P)
October 15—Barry Moser
The Three Little Pigs (P)
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (P)
October 19—Ed Emberley
Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals (N)
Ed Emberley’s Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (P)
Go Away, Big Green Monster! (P)
October 19—Dan Gutman
October 19—Philip Pullman
October 20—Nikki Grimes
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures (P)
Meet Danitra Brown (Poetry)
October 20—Crockett Johnson
Harold and the Purple Crayon (P)
October 21—Janet Ahlberg
October 21—Ursula K. Le Guin
Catwings (C series)
October 23—Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak (C)
Fever 1793 (C)
October 25—Fred Marcellino
I, Crocodile (P)
October 30—Henry Winkler
October 31—Katherine Paterson
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