Eatons Hill State School - Authors and Illustrators Birthdays

April	2	Emily Rodda/Jennifer Rowe	The Time Keeper , Rowan of Rin , Deltora Quest
Top	2	Hans Christian Anderson	The Wild Swans , The Match Girl , The Princess and the Pea
	3	Pamela Allen	Who Sank the Boat? , Mr McGee and the Biting Flea , Thomas and Grandpa
		Phoebe Gilman	The Balloon Tree
		Michael Salmon	The Monster who Ate Australia
	5	Gary Hurle	Angie's Ankles
		Anthony Horowitz	Stormbreaker , Point Blank
	6	Graeme Base	The Eleventh Hour , The Waterhole , Truckdogs
		Marcia Vaughan	Wombat Stew
	12	Beverly Cleary	The Mouse and the Motorcycle , Ramona Quimby, Age 8
	15	Pamela Freeman	Victor's Quest
	16	John Christopher	The White Mountains , The City of Gold and Lead
	24	Margaret Wild	There's a Sea in My Bedroom , My Dearest Dinosaur
	27	John Burningham	Mr Gumpy's Motor Car , The Shopping Basket
	30	Paul Jennings	The Gizmo , Unbearable , The Cabbage Patch Fib
		Nadia Wheatley	Five Times Dizzy , Dancing at the Anzac Deli
May	5	Herge	Tintin
Top	7	Michael Rosen	You Can't Catch Me!
	9	J. M. Barrie	Peter Pan
	11	Gwenda Turner	Australian ABC , At the Beach
	12	Edward Lear	The Quangle-Wangle's Hat , Edward Lear's Limericks
	13	S. A. Wakefield	Bottersnikes and Gumbles
	14	Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist
	15	L. Frank Baum	The Wizard of Oz and others
	16	Diana Kidd	Onion Tears , I Love You Jason Delaney
	17	Gary Paulsen	Hatchet , Hatchet: The Return
	20	Dianne Bates	Grandma Cadbury
	22	Arnold Lobel	Frog and Toad Together , A Treeful of Pigs
	24	Mary Grant Bruce	Billabong's Daughter , Captain Jim
	28	Nan Chauncy	Devil's Hill , Tangara
	29	Eleanor Coerr	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
	31	Judith Wright	"Bullocky"
June	2	Paul Galdone	The Tailypo (illustrator) , Fin M'Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill
Top		Helen Oxenbury	Helen Oxenbury's ABC of Things
	5	Mrs Aeneas Gunn	We of the Never-Never
		Richard Scarry	Best Word Book Ever
	6	Peter Spier	Rain , Bored - Nothing to Do
	8	Ivan Southall	Finn's Folly , The Fox Hole
	10	Maurice Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are , In the Night Kitchen
	11	Robert Munsch	The Paper Bag Princess
	13	Rachel Flynn	I Can't Wait! , I Hate Fridays!
		Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen	Two of a Kind series , So Little Time series
	15	Brian Jacques	Redwall series
	16	Isobelle Carmody	Angel Fever , Gateway trilogy , The Obernewtyn Chronicles
	17	Henry Lawson	The Loaded Dog , The Teams
	18	Pat Hutchins	The Very Worst Monster , Titch , Rosie's Walk
	19	Patricia Wrightson	Down to Earth , Rocks of Honey
	20	David Cox	Tin Lizzie and Little Nell , Ayu and the Perfect Moon
	21	Janet McLean	The Riverboat Crew
	25	Eric Carle	The Very Hungry Caterpillar , The Bad-Tempered Ladybird , Brown Bear, Brown Bear
		Ursula Dubosarsky	The Last Week in December , My Father is Not a Comedian
	26	Frank Moffatt	Farmer Beans and the Pantry Frog
		Charlotte Zolotow	Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present
	29	June Epstein	Big Dipper Songs

July	2	Jean Craighead George	My Side of the Mountain
Top	10	James Aldridge	Ride a Wild Pony , True Story of Lilli Stubeck
	11	Helen Cresswell	The Piemakers , The Bagthorpe Saga
		James Stevenson	Could be Worse! , What's Under my Bed?
		E.B. White	Charlotte's Web , Stuart Little
	14	Peggy Parish	Amelia Bedelia series
	18	Reginald Ottley	Mum's Place
	19	Victor Kelleher	Taronga , Brother Night
		Garth Nix	Mr Monday , Grim Tuesday , Sabriel
	26	Terry Denton	Felix and Alexander , Splat!
	28	Beatrix Potter	Peter Rabbit
	30	Peter Gouldthorpe	Hist! Hark!
	31	Lynne Reid Banks	The Indian in the Cupboard , The Return of the Indian
		J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter series
August	3	Max Fatchen	The River Kings
Top	4	Munro Leaf	Ferdinand
	7	Betsy Byars	The Pinballs , The House of Wings
	11	Enid Blyton	Famous Five , Secret Seven
	12	Ann A. Martin	Babysitters Club series
	15	Garry Disher	The Bamboo Flute , Ratface , Switchcat
	18	Paula Danziger	The Cat Ate My Gymsuit , Amber Brown series
	20	Margaret Clark	Mango Street series , Aussie Angels series , Shorts series
	28	Phyllis Krasilovsky	The Very Little Boy , The Very Little Girl
		Joseph Jacobs	English Fairy Tales
		Gillian Rubinstein	Space Demons , At Ardilla
	30	Donald Crews	Freight Train
September	3	Andy Griffiths	Just Tricking! , Just Crazy! , The Cat on the Mat is Flat
Top	7	C.J. Dennis	Hist!
	8	Jeanie Adams	Pigs and Honey
		Jack Prelutsky	Be Glad of the Nose on Your Face , Homework! Oh Homework!
	10	Babette Cole	The Trouble with Mum , Winnie Allfours
	11	Anthony Browne	Look What I Can Do! , The Piggy Book
	13	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	15	Tomie DePaola	Strega Nona , Tony's Bread
		Robert McCloskey	Make Way for Ducklings
	16	Rodney Martin	There's a Dinosaur in the Park , Ghost Dog
	17	David McRobbie	The Wayne Manifesto , Fergus McPhail ,
	19	Libby Gleeson	Eleanor Elizabeth , Sleep Time
	21	Hazel Edwards	There's a Hippopotamus on the Roof Eating Cake
	23	Gary Crew	The Water Tower , Caleb
		Jan Ormerod	Sunshine , Moonlight
	24	Barbara Ker Wilson	Fairy Tales from Scotland
		Ruth Park	The Muddle-Headed Wombat , Callie's Castle , Playing Beatie Bow
	25	Shel Silverstein	The Giving Tree , Where the Sidewalk Ends
	26	Libby Hathorn	Thunderwith , Grandma's Shoes , Caravan Kids
	30	Nette Hilton	The Web , A Frilling Time

October	1	Caroline MacDonald	The Lake at the End of the World , Elephant Rock
Top	4	Bill Scott	Penguin Australian Songbook
	6	Ann James	Penny Pollard's Scrapbook
	8	R.L. Stine	Goosebumps series , Fear Street series
	9	Michael Dugan	Wombats Can't Fly
	10	Robert Roennfeldt	Tiddalick - the Frog who Caused a Flood
	13	Robert Ingpen	The Idle Bear
		Doug Macleod	In the Garden of Badthings
	16	Oscar Wilde	The Selfish Giant , The Happy Prince
	17	Rod McRae	Dragon in the Garden Shed
	19	Edel Wignell	A Boggle of Bunyips
	20	Bob Graham	Rose and Mr Wintergarden , The Wild
	21	Eleanor Spence	The October Child
	26	Christobel Mattingley	Windmill at Magpie Creek , The Magic Saddle
		Steven Kellogg	The Mysterious Tadpole
	30	Morris Lurie	The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
	31	Katherine Paterson	Bridge to Terabithia
November	2	Jenny Pausacker	Marty Hollitt & the Amazing Game Machine
Top		Jeannie Baker	Window , Where the Forest Meets the Sea
	3	Oodgeroo Noonuccal	Stradbroke Dreamtime
	10	Natalie Jane Prior	The Paw
	13	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island
	14	Astrid Lindgren	Pippi Longstocking
		William Steig	Shrek , Abel's Island
	16	Colin Thiele	Shatterbelt , Aftershock
		Joan Phipson	The Family Conspiracy
	17	Alison Lester	Rosie Sips Spiders , My Farm , Are We There Yet?
	19	Wendy Orr	Ark in the Park , Leaving it to You , Nim's Island
	23	Anna Fienberg	Tashi series
	24	Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden
	25	Marc Brown	Arthur series
	26	Sally Odgers	Dreadful David , Jack Russell series ,
		Simon French	Change the Locks , Cannily, Cannily , Guess the Baby
	27	Lilith Norman	Grandpa
	28	Tomi Ungerer	The Three Robbers , Zeralda's Ogre
	29	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women
		C.S. Lewis	Chronicles of Narnia
	30	Jonathon Swift	Gulliver's Travels
		Mark Twain	Tom Sawyer , Huckleberry Finn
December	4	Ted Greenwood	Spooner or Later
Top	6	Max Dann	No Place for Grubbs!
	10	Mercer Mayer	The Boy, the Dog and the Frog , Grandma and Me
	11	Roland Harvey	The First Fleet
	14	Rosemary Sutcliff	Blood Feud , Warrior Scarlet
	16	Quentin Blake	Mr Magnolia , Angelo
	17	Jacqueline Wilson	The Story of Tracey Beaker , The Suitcase Kid
	20	Richard Atwater	Mr Popper's Penguins
	22	David Martin	Mr P and his Remarkable Flight
	27	David Metzenthen	Brocky's Bananagram , Red Boxing Gloves , Tiff and Trout
	30	Rudyard Kipling	The Jungle Book , The Elephant's Child
		Elyne Mitchell	The Silver Brumby