Celebrating September 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 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. (Chapter Books=C, Picture Books=P, Nonfiction=N)

September 2—Demi

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale—N

September 2—Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mouse Paint—P

Balancing Act—P

Hop Jump—P

September 3—Aliki

Feelings—N

My Five Senses—N

Mummies Made in Egypt—N

September 4—Syd Hoff

Danny and the Dinosaur—P

Sammy the Seal—P

September 5—Paul Fleischman

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices—N

The Matchbox Diary—P

Seedfolks—P

Weslandia—P

September 8—Jack Prelutsky

The New Kid on the Block—N

A Pizza the Size of the Sun—N

It’s Raining Pigs & Noodles—N

September 8—Jon Scieszka

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka—N

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!—P

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales—P

The Frog Prince, Continued—P

Knights of the Kitchen Table—C

September 12—Valerie Tripp

Meet Felicity: An American Girl—C

Meet Molly: An American Girl—C

Meet Josefina: An American Girl—C

September 13—Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—C

The BFG—C

James and the Giant Peach—C

September 13—Else Holmelund Minarik

Little Bear—P

Father Bear Comes Home—P

Little Bear’s Friend—P

September 14—Robert McCloskey

Make Way for Ducklings—P

Blueberries for Sal—P

Homer Price—C

September 14—Elizabeth Winthrop

The Castle in the Attic—C

September 15—Tomie dePaola

Strega Nona—P

The Art Lesson—P

Pancakes for Breakfast—P

September 16—H. A. Rey

Curious George

September 17—Gail Carson Levine

Ella Enchanted—C

The Two Princesses of Bamarre—C

September 25—Jim Murphy

The Great Fire—C

Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America—C

The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863—C

September 25—James Ransome

The Bell Rang—P

Before She Was Harriet—P

Overground Railroad—P

September 25—Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree—P

Where the Sidewalk Ends—N

A Light in the Attic—N

Falling Up—N

September 27—Bernard Waber

Ira Sleeps Over—P

Ask Me—P

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile—P (inspiration for a new movie out in October!)

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