Celebrating August Authors
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Students with summer birthdays are worth celebrating! So are summer authors!
This list will remind you of authors you already love and may introduce you to a few new ones. You’ll find titles to interest all ages. Check them out from your local or school library, or click the Amazon links. (C=Chapter Book, P=Picture Book, N= Nonfiction)
August 2—James Howe
August 6—Frank Asch
Mooncake—P
August 6—Barbara Cooney
August 9—Patricia McKissack
What Is Given from the Heart—P
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859—C
August 9—Seymour Simon
Sharks—N
The Moon—N
August 9—Pamela L. Travers
August 10—Lizi Boyd
August 11—Joanna Cole
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks—N
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth—N
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body—N
August 11—Don Freeman
Corduroy—P
August 11—Steven Kroll
August 12—Mary Ann Hoberman
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together—P
August 12—Ruth Stiles Gannett
August 14—Alice Provensen
Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm—P
August 16—Eileen Spinelli
Thankful—P
August 18—Paula Danziger
August 20—Judy Schachner
August 21—Sharon M. Draper
Blended—C
August 23—Mac Barnett
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse—P
Square—P
August 25—Lane Smith
August 25—Ian Falconer
August 26—Bernard Wiseman
August 27—Suzy Cline
August 27—Wendy Pfeffer
August 27—Sarah Stewart
August 28—Allen Say
August 28—Tasha Tudor
1 Is One—P
August 29—Karen Hesse
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861—C
August 30—Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel—P
August 30—Donald Crews
Shortcut—P
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