May Birthdays of Children’s Authors and Illustrators

04–Audrey Penn 

04–Don Wood

05–Leo Lionni‘

06–Ted Lewin

06–Barbara McClintock

09–Eleanor Estes

10–Christopher Paul Curtis

10–Caroline B. Cooney 

11–Peter Sis

14–Eoin Colfer 

15–Kadir Nelson

15–L. Frank Baum

16–Adam Rex

16–Margret Rey

16–Bruce Coville

17–Eloise Greenfield

17–Gary Paulsen

17–Grace Lin

18–Lillian Hoban 

20– Mary Pope Osborne 

20–Annie M. G. Schmidt

20–Dan Yaccarino

22–Arnold Lobel

23–Susan Cooper

23– Margaret Wise Brown

24–Candace Fleming 

29–Andrew Clements

30–Millicent Selsam

31– Will Hillenbrand 

(Is there an author or illustrator with a birthday in May you would like me to add? Let me know. If there is an official website, please include that in your e-mail. Did I get a date wrong, or you do have an official website, or the link is broken? Please let me know that too.)