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Author of the week - (author websites) see also Book-a-Day Almanac and Happy Birthday Author blog with activities - mostly picture books
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June - School Library Media.com list
- June
2 - Norton Juster
- Norton Juster - Scholastic
- Reading Rockets author intro and chapter read of Phantom Tollbooth
- June 6 - Geraldine
McCaughrean - The Kite Rider video
- Stop the train author video - Meet the Author
- June
6 - Cynthia Rylant - BrainPopJr.
movie
- Cynthia Rylant - Scholastic
- June 10th
- Maurice Sendak
- Kids Read.com
- author interview (bit irreverent)- Rading Rockets - making of Where the Wile Things are
- PBS American Masters
- June 12 - Hilary McKay
- June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- June 14 - Lensey Namioka
- June 14 - Laurence Yep
- June 15 - Betty Ren Wright
- June 15th - Brian
Jacques
- Brian Jacques - Greenville PL
- June 17 - Elizabeth Enright
- June 18 - Vivian Vande Velde
- June 20 - Annette Curtis Klause
- June 23 - Theodore Taylor
- June 26 - Walter Farley
- June 26 - Tor Seidler
- June 27 - James Lincoln Collier
- June 28 - Esther Forbes
- June 29 - Antoine de Saint Exupery
- June 29 - Janet
Tashjian
- Janet Tashjian and son - Watch. Connect Read - video clips
- June 30 - Mollie Hunter
July -- School Library Media.com list
- July
2 - Jack
Gantos - Newbery honor Joey Pigza - Newbery gold for Dead
end in Novelt - YouTube interview Jan. 2012
- Jack Gantos - video interview - Reading Rockets (3 part)
- Jack Gantos - video interview- TeachingBooks.net - Journaling
- Jack Gantos - video interview- AdLit.org (5 part)
- Jack Gantos - Chat with article from School Library Journal
- July
2 - Jean Craighead George
- video - 50 year aniversary of My Side of the Mountain
- July 5 - Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene)
- July 5 - Nancy Springer
- July 6 - Gloria Skurzynski
- July 11 - E. B. White - Greenville PL
- July 12
- Joan Bauer - Newbery honor Rules of the
Raod
- video interview - AdLit
- July 17 - Chris Crutcher
- July 28 - Natalie Babbitt
- July 29 - Sharon Creech
- July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks Greenville PL
- August 1st - Bill
Wallace - died Jan. 30, 2012
- Bill Wallace - author interview - Scholastic
- August 2nd James Howe
- August 2nd - Isabel Allende
- August 7th Betsy
Byars
- Betsy Byars Carol Hurst Children's Literature
- August 8th - Deborah Ellis
- August 12th Ann M. Martin
- August 14th - Carolyn Marsden
- August 15th - Edith Nesbit
- August
16th Matt Christopher
- Matt Christopher - Greenville PL
- August 17 - Kirby Larson
- August 18th
- Paula Danziger
- Paul Danziger - all about Paul Danziger
- August 22nd - Ray Bradbury
- August 22nd - Will Hobbs
- August
26th - Virginia
Euwer Wolff
- Bat 6 - Scholastic online booktalk
- August 27th - Suzy Kline
- August 27th - Lisa
Yee
- Millicent Min, Girl Genius - Scholastic online booktalk video
- Diana Wynne Jones
September - School Library Media. com list and Scholastic list
- September 2nd - Demi
- September 4th - Joan Aiken
- Sept. 5th - Paul Fleischman
- Sept.
6th - Toni DiTerlizzi
- Toni DiTerlizzi - Simon&Schuster - with video about Wondla audio book
- Sept.
8th - Jack Prelutsky
KidsRead
- Poetry writing with Jack Prelutsky - Scholastic
- Sept. 8th - Jon Scieszka - interview and video at Reading Rockets
- Sept. 9th - Eloise McGraw
- Sept. 11th - Alfred Slote
- Sept.
13th - Roald Dahl
- BrainPop video biography
- online author video - Anita Silvey About.com
- Welcome to the World of Dahl (PDF)
- Sept. 13th - Mildred Taylor
- Sept. 14th - Daniel Handler - Lemony Snicket
- Sept. 14th - Elizabeth Winthrop
- Sept. 14th - William Armstrong
- Sept. 15th - James Fenimore Cooper
- Sept. 15th - Tomie DePaola - Tomie.com
- Sept. 15th - Robert McCloskey -- About.com
- Sept. 17th - Elizabeth Enright -
- Sept. 17th
- Gail
Carson Levine
- Gail Carson Levine - Kids Read
- Sept. 20th - Elise Broach
- Sept. 21st - Alexander Key
- Sept. 23rd - Bruce Brooks
- Sept. 24 - Jane
Cutler
- Jane Cutler Meet the Author video
- Sept.
24th - Wilson Rawls
- Sept.
25th - Jim Murphy
- online author video - INK Think Tank
- Sept. 25th - Shel Silverstein
- Sept. 29th - Stan Berenstain
- Sept.
30th - Janet Wong - official site
- Janet Wong - Rutgers
October - School Library Media. com list
- Oct. 1 - Julie Andrews Edwards
- Oct. 2 - Jeanne Betancourt
- Oct. 3 - Molly Cone - Molly Cone picture - Seattle
- Oct. 4 - Julia Cunningham - born Spokane
- Oct. 4
- Karen Cushman
- Karen Cushman - author interview Authors Road
- Karen Cushman - Houghton Mifflin - web cast
- Learning about Karen Cushman - Rutgers
- Oct. 4 - Robert Lawson
- Oct. 4 - Donald
J. Sobol
- Donald J. Sobol - author of the month at Greenville Public Library
- Oct. 5 - Louise Fitzhugh
- Oct. 5 - Michael Morpurgo -
- Oct.
5 - David
Shannon
- David Shannon - CBC Books
- Oct. 6 -- Elizabeth Gray Vining- Adam of the Road
- Oct. 7 - Alice Dalgliesh - Courage of Sarh Noble
- Oct. 8 - Barthe DeClements (lives is Snohomish, WA)
- Oct. 8 - Frank Herbert -
- Oct. 8 - Frank Ormondroy
- Oct. 8 - R.
L. Stine - Kids Read -
video interview -Reading Rockets
- R. L. Stine - Scholastic - with games
- Oct.
9 - Johanna
Hurwitz - Kids Read
- Johanna Hurwitz - author of the month at Greenville Public Library
- Oct. 10 - James Marshall - author of the month at Greenville Public Library
- Oct.
10 - Rick Riordan --
- Titan's Curse (#3)- Scholastic book talk video
- reading first chapter of Battle of the Labyrinth (#4)
- video trailer from Borders - Last Olympian
- Barnes
and Noble online video - how started writing
Borders visit presentation explanation of series
- Oct. 10 - Robert San Souci
- Oct 12 - Edward Bloor
- Oct. 14 -- Lois Lenski - Indian Captive
- Oct. 16 - Joseph
Bruchac
- Author interview - Scholastic
- Oct. 18 - Ursula LeGuin
- Oct.
19 - Dan Gutman
- Dan Gutman - Homework Machine - video interview - Scholastic
- Oct. 19 - Philip Pullman
- Oct. 20 - Gennifer Choldenko
- Oct. 21 - Ann Cameron
- Oct.
23 - Laurie Halse Anderson - video
from Reading Rockets
- section on Revulsions and Revisions on Fever 1793
- section on Digging up the Facts on Chains
- section on Historical Accuracy - nonfiction in fiction
- section on Bumpy start - about being a non reader at first
- Oct. 23 - Edward Eager
- Oct
23 - Gordon Korman
- Gordon Korman - video interview - Scholastic - author of the month
- Zoobreak - online booktalk video from Scholastic
- Oct. 24 - Barbara Robinson
- Oct. 25 - Stephanie Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites
- Oct. 26 - Tony
Abbott
- Tony Abbott - Scholastic
- Oct.
27 - Jonathan Stroud
- Jonathan Stroud - Ptolemy's Gate video
- Oct. 29 - Gerald Morris
- Oct. 31 -Katherine
Paterson - interview
and video
at Reading Rockets
- Katherine Paterson - Carol Hurst site
- Katherine Paterson - IPL
- Katherine Paterson - Internet School Library Media Center
- Oct. 31 - Sydney Taylor
November - School Library Media.com list
- Nov.
2 - Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
- Nov. 2 - Natalie Kinsey-Warnock - Penguin
- Nov. 3 - Bette Boa Lord
- Nov. 3 - Monica Hughes
- Nov. 4 - Sterling North
- Nov. 7 - Armstrong Sperry
- Nov. 8. - Peg Kehret
- Nov. 8 - Brandon Mull
- Nov. 8 - Bram Stoker
- Nov. 9 - Barbara O'Connor
- Nov. 10 - Nathaniel Benchley
- Nov. 11 - Louisa M. Alcott
- Nov.
12 - Marjorie
Weinman Sharmat
- Marjorie Sharmat - KeadsRead
- Nov. 12 -
Neil Shusterman
- Author video interview - Adolescent Literacy
- Nov.
13 - Robert
Louis Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Wikipedia
- Nov.
14 - Astrid Lindgren.com
- Astrid Lindgren and Pippi Longstocking - video About.com
- Astrid Lindgren Internet School Library Media Center
- Nov. 14 - William Steig
- Nov. 15 - Daniel Pinkwater
- Nov. 16 - Jean Fritz
- Nov. 16 - Robin McKinley
- Nov. 17 - Christopher
Paolini - B&N author video
- Borders online interview video
- Nov. 19 - Wendy Orr
- Nov. 20 - Marion Dane Bauer
- Nov. 21 - Mary Jane Auch
- Nov. 21 - Elizabeth George Speare
- Nov. 21 - Megan Whalen Turner
- Nov. 23 - Gloria Whalen
- Nov. 24 - Carlo
Collodi
- Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio online
- Nov. 24 - Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Nov. 24 - Sylvia Engdahl
- Nov. 24 - Ben Mikaelsen
- Nov. 26 - Doris Gates
- Nov. 27 - Kevin Henkes
- Nov. 29 - Louisa May Alcott
- Nov. 29 - Lauren Child - Milkmonitor.com
- Nov. 29
- C. S. Lewis -
- Chronicles of Narnia activities, video clips - Harper Collins
- Nov.
29 - Madeleine L'Engle
- Madeleine L'Engle author profilevideo - About.com (Anita Silvey)
- Nov. 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Nov. 30 - Jonathan Swift
- Nov. 30
- Roland Smith
- Elephant Run booktalk video from Scholastic
- Peak booktalk video from Scholastic
- Tentacles booktalk video from Scholastic
- Nov.
30 - Samuel
Clemens (Mark Twain)
December - School Library Media. com list
- Dec.
- Chris
D'Lacey Scholastic
- Chris D'Lacey - Fire Star and Fire Within video (Meet the Author.com)
- Fire Eternal video from Scholastic
- Reading Rockets video interview - Dragons of Wayward Crescent
- Dec. 1 - Jan Brett
- Dec. 6 - Mary Downing Hahn
- Dec.
7th - Anne Fine
- Anne Fine - Up on cloud nine video
- Dec.
9th - Sara Pennypacker
- Clementine
Scholastic book talk video
- reading Clementine - Scholastic
- pseudonym Sara Young
- Dec. 10th - Cornelia
Funke
- Cornelia Funke - B&N author video
- Cornelia Funke - Scholastic author video
- Al's Book Club - Today show - online author interview
- Inheart movie trailer - YouTube
- Dec. 10th - Margaret Rumer Godden
- Dec. 10th - Mary Norton
- Dec. 13th - Tamora Pierce
- Dec. 14th - Rosemary Sutcliffe
- Dec. 16th - Peter Dickinson
- Dec. 16th - Bill Brittain
- Dec. 18th - L. M. (Lucy Maria) Boston
- Dec. 19th - Eve Bunting
- Dec. 22nd - Jerry Pinkney
- Dec. 23rd - Avi
- interview on Crispin
at Reading Rockets
- video interview from Booklist on YouTube -- on why name (Edward Irving Wortis)
- Seer of Shadows - online booktalk video from Scholastic
- Dec. 24th - Gillian Cross
- Dec. 25th - Cynthia DeFelice
- Dec.
25th - Pam Munoz Ryan - interview
at Reading Rockets
- Pam Munoz Ryan - video interview - Scholastic - Paint the Wind booktalk video
- Esperanza Rising - Scholasic online booktalk video
- Esperanza Rising - student produced online booktalk video
- Dec. 28th - Carol Ryrie Brink
- Dec. 29th - Richard Atwater
- Dec. 30th - Rudyard Kipling
January - School Library Media.com list
- Jan. 2nd - Isaac Asimov
- Jan. 2nd -- David Patneaude
- Jan. 3rd - Carolyn Haywood
- Jan. 3rd - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jan. 4th - Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - online interview about Shiloh, abused dogs - Happy Birthday Author blog
- Reading Rockets video interview
- Jan. 6th - David Clement-Davies
- Jan. 6th - Wendelin Van Draanen
- Jan. 7th - Minfong Ho
- Jan. 10th - Sook Nyul Choi
- Jan. 11th - Robert
C. O'Brien --
pen name for Robert Conly; daughter is Leslie Jane Conly, wrote Rasco - Jan. 11th - Mary Rodgers
- Jan. 12th - Jack London
- Jan. 14th - Thorton Burgess
- Jan. 14th - Hugh Lofting
- Jan. 17th - Robert Cormier
- Jan. 17th. - John Bellairs
- Jan. 18th - A. A. Milne
- Jan. 19th - Nina Bawden
- Jan. 19th - Edgar Allan Poe
- Jan. 20th - Tedd Arnold
- Jan. 23rd - Carl Deuker
- Jan. 26th - Mary Mapes Dodge
- Jan. 27th - Lewis Carroll
- Jan. 27th - Julius
Lester
- Julius Lester-Scholastic
- Jan. 29th - Christopher Collier
- Jan. 30th - Lloyd
Alexander
- Lloyd Alexander - Kids Read
- Jan. 30th - Polly Horvath
- Jan. 30th - Allan W. Eckert
February - School Library Media.com list
- Feb.
1 - Jerry Spinelli
- Jerry Spinelli - author video - AdLit.org (football game = beginning of writing)
- Jerry Spinelli - Random House
- Feb. 2 - Rebecca Caudill
- Feb. 2 - Betsy Duffey
- Feb. 3 - Joan Lowery Nixon
- Feb. 3 - Walt Morey
- Feb. 7 - Kevin
Crossley-Holland
- Arthur: Seeing Stone - author video
- Feb. 7 - Fred Gipson
- Feb. 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Feb. 8 - Jules Verne
- Feb. 10 - E.
L. Konigsburg - Simon and Schuster
- E. L. Konigsburg - Kids Read
- E. L. Konigsburg - Scholastic
- Feb.
11 - Jane Yolen -
interview at Reading Rockets
- Adolescent Literacy - author interview
- Jane Yolen - Children's Lit
- Feb.
12 - Judy Blume
- Judy Blume
- Reading Rockets video interview
- Feb. 12 - Jacqueline Woodson - Random House
- Feb. 13 - Janet Taylor Lisle
- Feb.
13 - William
Sleator
- William Sleator
- William Sleator - Penguin
- Feb. 14 - Jamake Highwater
- Feb. 16 - Carol Gorman
- Feb. 17 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Feb. 17 - Mary Norton
- Feb. 17 - Robert Newton Peck
- Feb 19 - Jeff
Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - online video from Borders - online
video from Reading Rockets
- Author of the month, with video from Scholastic
- Al's Book Club - Today show - online author interview
- Online video interview SLJ presentation for Third Wheel
- Feb. 21 - Iain Lawrence
- Feb. 25 - Cynthia Voigt
- Feb. 27 - John Steinbeck
- Feb. 28 - Megan
McDonald
- Judy Moody around the world in 8 1/2 days - Scholastic book talk video
- Megan McDonald - author interview video- Scholastic
- Megan McDonald - Reading Rockets video interview
- Feb. 28 - Donna Jo Napoli
March - School Library Media.com list
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- April - School Library Media. com list
- April 1 - Anne McCaffrey
- April 2 - Emily Rodda
- April 4 - Maya Angelou
- April
4 - Cressida Cowell
- Cressida Cowell - How to cheat a dragon's curse video
- April 4 - Patricia Levy
- April
5 - Richard Peck Carol
Hurst site
- Richard Peck Author Corner
- Long way from Chicago - booktalk video - student produced
- April 8 - Ruth Chew
- April 8 - Susan Bonners
- April
9 - Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Scholastic video for Found
- Reading Rockets video interview
- Adolescent Literacy video interview
- April
10 -David Adler
- David Adler - video interview - Reading Rockets
- Cam Jansen website - Penguin
- April 11 - Graham Salisbury
- April 12 - C. W. Anderson
- April 12 - Beverly Cleary (with video15min)- interview Reading Rockets -- also online video (3 min) by Anita Silvey About.com
- YouTube video student project by Mayte Valdez (5 min)
- letter about first book
- April 12 - Gary Soto
- April 13 - Margruerite Henry - Greenville PL
- April 14 - Laurence Yep - interview - Reading Rockets
- April 16 - John
Christopher
- John Christopher - Fantastic Fiction
- April 16 - Gertrude Chandler Warner
- April 16 - Garth Williams, illus.
- April 17 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- April 18 - Mitchell Sharmat
- April 20 - Mary Hoffman
- April 22 - Paula Fox
- April 25 - Maud Hart Lovelace
- April 26 - Patricia Reilly Giff - Random House
- April 27 - Betty Birney
- April 27 - Barbara Park
- April 28 - Lois Duncan
- April
28 - Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett - Wee Free Men (Meet the Authors.com video)
- April 29 - Ron Roy
- April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh
- April 30 - Kirkpatrick Hill
May - School Library Media.com list
- May 3 - Michael Cadnum
- May 5 - Scott
Westerfeld
- Scott Westerfeld - Midnighters
- May 9 - Richard Adams
- May 9 - J. M. Barrie
- May 9 - Eleanor Estes
- May 10 -
Caroline B. Cooney - TeenReads
- Caroline B. Cooney - Random House
- May
10 - Christopher
Paul Curtis - video interview - Reading Rockets
- Christopher Paul Curtis - Elijah of Buxton video interview - Scholastic
- May 11 - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- May
12 - Blue Balliett
- Al's Book Club - Today show - author interview online
- Scholastic online booktalk video of Chasing Vermeer
- Scholastic online booktalk video of Wright 3
- May 12 - Farley Mowat
- May 14 - Eoin
Colfer
- Al's Book Club - Today show - author interview online
- Artemis Fowl
- Artemis Fowl author video - Meet the Author
- Arctic Incident author video - Meet the author
- Legend of Spud Murphy - author video - Meet the author
- Supernaturalists author video - Meet the author
- Time Paradox - author video from Borders
- May 14 - George Selden
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum
- May
15 - Norma Fox Mazer
- TeenReads.com
- Norma Fox Mazer - Scholastic author video interview
- May
15 - Paul Zindel
- Paul Zindel - Random House
- May 16
- Bruce Coville
- Bruce Coville - Greenville PL
- May
17 - Grace Lin
- Grace Lin - Reading Rockets video interview
- May
17 - Gary Paulsen
- Gary Paulsen - Greenville PL
- Gary Paulsen - Random House
- May
20 _ Mary Pope Osborne
- Author of the month, with video, from Scholastic
- Author video - YouTube
- May 21 - Beverly Naidoo
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- May 23 - Scott O'Dell
- May 23 - Susan
Cooper
- Reading Rockets video interview
- May 27 - M. E. Kerr - TeenReads.com
- May 29 - T. H. White
- May 29 - Willow Davis Roberts
- May 29 - Brock Cole
- May 29 - Andrew
Clements
- Andrew Clements - author video interview and other online booktalks - MyVisit
- Andrew Clements - Children's Lit
- Andrew Clements - Barnes&Noble online video
- Frindle.com
- Author interview/presentation - Scholastic
- No Talking - book talk video
- May 30 - Frances O'Roark Dowell
- May
31 - Karen
Hesse - Scholastic
- Karen Hesse - Kids Read
- Out of the Dust - Scholastic online booktalk video
- May 31 - Harry Mazer
June
Others
- with author videos from MeettheAuthor.com and Scholastic
author websites and online booktalk videos
- David Almond - Clay (b. 5/15/1951)
- Jeannie Birdsall -- TED author video
- Georgia
Byng - Molly Moon's hypnotic Holiday
- Molly Moon stops the world - Meet the Author video
- Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian - May 16th -movie trailer
- Zizou
Corder - Lion Boy
- Audrey Couloumbis - Teachers@Random - author video - Maud Marche
- Neil Gaiman - Graveyard
book interview - Borders
- book
trailer clip
- Neil Gaiman
video reading the
book - TeachingBooks.net OR mousecircus.com
- Neil Gaiman website
- book
trailer clip
- Carol Gorman
- Erin Hunter - (4 writers in 1)
- B&N author video
- Seekers
video from Scholastic
- Al's Book Club - Today show - author interview online
- Jennifer Holm - webcast video
from National Book Festival - Middle School worse than meatballs
- author video - Teachers@Random classroomcast - Babymouse
- Jarred Krososzka Lunch Lady author with link to TED video: how a boy became an artist
- Nancy Krulik - author of Katie Kazoo
- Ingrid Law - author of Savvy - book trailer from Penguin
- Cynthia
Lord
- Cynthia Lord - video interview - Scholastic
- Rules - Scholastic online booktalk video
- Mike Lupica - Author of the month, with video, from Scholastic
- China Mieville - Un Lun Dun
- James Patterson - Maximum Ride series' latest Final Warning (trailer)from Barnes and Noble
- Michelle
Paver - Wolf Brother
- Michell Paver - video interview from Book Wrap Central (scroll down)
- Rodman
Philbrick
- Last book in the Universe - Scholastic online booktalk video
- Rodman Philbrick - Scholastic author video
- Sarah Prineas - Magic Thief
- Celia Rees - Pirates
- Brian
Selznick - Invention of Hugo Cabret - video
interview - Scholastic
- Brian Selznik video at Reading Rockets
- Teaching resources -with a tour of Museum of Natural History video - Wonderstruck connection
- Darren Shan - Cirque du Freak
- Jeff Smith - Bone author online video by Scholastic
- Trenton
Lee Stewart
- Curiousity Chronicles newspaper - with more games
- Mysterious Benedict Society.com - original game puzzles
- Jeff Stone - Five Ancestors series - author video -Teachers@Random
- Lauren Tarshis - Scholastic author video interview
- Eleanor Updale - Montmorency
Book Thief - book trailer by students from Smoky Hill Library, Colorado
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