May Authors' & Illustrators' Birthday Calendar

From birth through the third grade,
you learn to read.
From fourth grade through the rest
of your life,
you read to learn.

bear with green bow

May
1	Charles Shaw, Author & Illustrator
2	Susan Shreve, Author
3	Mavis Jukes, Author
4	Beverly Butler, Author	Doug Cushman, Author & Illustrator	Don Wood, Illustrator
5	Leo Lionni, Author & Illustrator
6	Judy Delton, Author
7	Nonny Hogrogian, Author & Illustrator
8	Ellen Howard, Author
9	Richard Adams, Author	James M. Barrie, Author	Eleanor Estes, Author
10	Christopher Paul Curtis, Author	Bruce McMillan, Author
11	Sheila Burnford, Author	Peter Sis, Illustrator	Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Author
12	Edward Lear, Author	Betsy Lewin, Illustrator
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14	Eoin Colfer, Author	George Selden, Author
15	L. Frank Baum, Author	Kadir Nelson, Illustrator
16	Bruce Coville, Author	Deborah Nourse Lattimore, Author & Illustrator	Margret Rey, Author
17	Gary Paulsen, Author
18	Debbie Dadey, Author	Lillian Hoban, Illustrator	Irene Hunt, Author	Barbara Ann Porte, Author
19	Arthur Dorros, Author
20	Caralyn Buehner, Author	Mary Pope Osborne, Author
21	Bonnie Bryant, Author
22	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author	Arnold Lobel, Author & Illustrator
23	Margaret Wise Brown, Author	Scott O'Dell, Author
24	Diane deGroat, Author & Illustrator
25	Barbara Bottner, Author	Ann McGovern, Author
26	Sheila Greenwald, Author & Illustrator
27	Lynn Sweat, Illustrator
28	Ian Fleming, Author
29	Andrew Clements, Author	Eleanor Coerr, Author	Brock Cole, Author & Illustrator	Stephen T. Johnson, Author & Illustrator
30	From birth through the third grade, you learn to read. From fourth grade through the rest of your life, you read to learn.
31	Elizabeth Coatsworth, Author	Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator

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