“In the great forest a little elephant is born. His name is Babar. His mother loves him very much. She rocks him to sleep with her trunk while singing softly to him.” Jean dr Brunhoff French writer and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff was born on December 9th, 1899, in Paris, France. His father, Maurice de… Read More December 9th – Jean dr Brunhoff
“if one found some truths worth telling they should be told to the young in terms that were understandable to them.” Monro Leaf Wilbur Munro Leaf was born on December 4th, 1905, in Hamilton, Maryland. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and in 1927 graduated from the University of Maryland. In 1931 Leaf received his… Read More December 4th – Monro Leaf
“It’s it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything.” Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30th, 1874, on… Read More November 30th – Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Why can’t grown-ups just give me stuff, let me do what I like and then go away A LOT?” Richmal Crompton, William Again Richmal Crompton was born on the 15th of November in 1890 in Bury, Lancashire, England. Her father, Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn, taught classics at the local boys’ school, and Richmal attended… Read More November 15th – Richmal Crompton
“Don’t let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.” Astrid Lindgren Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was born on November 14th, 1907, in Sweden. She grew up on a farm with three siblings. After finishing school, she worked at a local newspaper, where she had a relationship with the chief editor. He was… Read More November 14th – Astrid Lindgren
“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” ― Neil Gaiman The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction Neil… Read More November 10th – Neil Gaiman
Nicholasa Mohr was born on November 1st, 1938, in Manhattan, New York. She is the best-known and most published Nuyorican writers – first and second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York who integrate Spanish and English language and American and Puerto Rican cultures. Her mother, Nicholasa Rivera, had moved from Puerto Rico to Spanish Harlem during the Depression.… Read More November 1st – Nicholasa Mohr
“I have often noted that it takes the thinnest skin in the world to be a writer, it takes the thickest to seek out publication. But both are needed—the extreme sensitivity and the hippo hide against criticism.” Katherine Paterson Katherine Womeldorf Paterson was born October 31st, 1932, in Qing Jiang, China. Her parents were Presbyterian… Read More October 31st – Katherine Paterson
“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind, 2004. Ursula Le Guin… Read More October 21st – Ursula Le Guin
“She believes in girls, studies them, and depicts them with pen both skilled and sympathetic.” Advertisement in Polly and Eleanor, Lillian Elizabeth Roy. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1922. Lilian C. McNamara was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Irish immigrants. She was an avid writer, penning a popular “Women’s Page” for… Read More October 20th – Lilian Garis
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