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