Author of the week - (author websites)

June - School Library Media.com list

• June 2 - Norton Juster
• June 6 - Geraldine McCaughrean - The Kite Rider video
  • Stop the train author video - Meet the Author
• June 6 - Cynthia Rylant - BrainPopJr. movie
• 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
• June 30 - Mollie Hunter

July

• July 2 - Jean Craighead George
• 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
• July 17 - Chris Crutcher
• July 28 - Natalie Babbitt
• July 29 - Sharon Creech
• July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks Greenville PL

August

• August 2nd James Howe
  • 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 16th Matt Christopher
  • Matt Christopher - Greenville PL
• August 17 - Kirby Larson
  • podcast interview
• August 18th - Paula Danziger
  • Paul Danziger - all about Paul Danziger
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury
• August 22nd - Will Hobbs
• August 29th - Karen Hesse
  • Karen Hesse
• Diana Wynne Jones

September - School Library Media. com list

• September 4th - Joan Aiken
• Sept. 5th - Paul Fleischman
• Sept. 8th - Jack Prelutsky James Madision University
  • Jack Prelutsky - Greenville PL
• Sept. 8th - Jon Sciezska - interview and video at Reading Rockets
• Sept. 9th - Eloise McGraw
  • Eloise McGraw
• Sept. 13th - Raold Dahl - Fans
  • Raold Dahl - James Madison University
• Sept, 13th - Robert McClosky
• Sept. 13th - Mildred Taylor
• Sept. 14th - Elizabeth Winthrop
• Sept. 14th - William Armstrong
• Sept. 15th - James Fenimore Cooper
• Sept. 15th - Tomie DePaola
  • Tomie DePaola - Tomie.com
• Sept. 15th - Robert McCloskey
  • Robert McCloskey
• Sept. 17th - Elizabeth Enright -
• Sept. 17th - Gail Carson Levine
• 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
• Sept. 25th - Shel Silverstein
• 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
  • 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 -
  • Children's Laureate 2003-2005
• Oct. 5 - David Shannon
  • David Shannon - CBC Books
• Oct. 8 - Barthe DeClements (lives is Snohomish, WA)
• Oct. 8 - Frank Herbert -
• Oct. 8 - Barthe DeClements
• Oct. 8 - Frank Ormondroy
• Oct. 8 - R. L. Stine - Kids Read - video interview -Reading Rockets
• Oct. 9 - Johanna Hurwitz - Scholastic
  • 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)
• Oct. 10 - Robert San Souci
• Oct 12 - Edward Bloor
• Oct. 16 - Joseph Bruchac
• Oct. 18 - Ursula LeGuin
• Oct. 19 - Dan
  • Dan Gutman - Homework Machine - video interview - Scholastic
• Oct. 19 - Philip Pullman
• Oct. 21 - Ann Cameron
• Oct. 23 - Edward Eager
• Oct 23 - Gordon Korman
  • Gordon Korman - video interview - Scholastic
• Oct. 24 - Barbara Robinson
• Oct. 27 - Jonathan Stroud
  • Jonathan Stroud - Ptolemy's Gate video
• 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 - Betty Boa Lord
• Nov. 3 - Monica Hughes
• Nov. 4 - Sterling North
• Nov. 7 - Armstrong Sperry
• Nov. 8. - Peg Kehret
  • Meet Peg Kehret
• Nov. 8 - Bram Stoker
  • Stoker, Dracula and vampires
• Nov. 9 - Barbara O'Connor
• Nov. 10 - Nathaniel Benchley
• Nov. 11 - Louisa M. Alcott
• Nov. 12 - Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Nov. 12 - Neil Shusterman
• Nov. 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - Wikipedia
• Nov. 14 - Astrid Lindgren.com
  • Astrid Lindgren Internet School Library Media Center
• Astrid Lindgren
• Nov. 14 - William Steig
• Nov. 15 - Daniel Pinkwater
• Nov. 16 - Jean Fritz
• Nov. 16 - Robin McKinley
• Nov. 17 - Christopher Paolini - B&N author video
• Nov. 19 - Wendy Orr
• Nov. 20 - Marion Dane Bauer
• Nov. 21 - Mary Jane Auch
• Nov. 21 - Elizabeth George Speare
  • 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 - C. S. Lewis
• Nov. 29 - Madeleine L'Engle
  • Madeleine L'Engle - Greenville Library
• Nov. 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Nov. 30 - Jonathan Swift
  • Gulliver's Travels
• Nov. 30 - Roland Smith
• Nov. 30 - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
  • 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)
• Dec. 1st - Jan Brett
• Dec. 7th - Anne Fine
  • Anne Fine - Up on cloud nine video
• Dec. 9th - Mary Downing Hahn
• Dec. 10th Cornelia Funke - video interview from Book Wrap Central (scroll down)
  • Cornelia Funke - B&N author video
• Dec. 10th - Margaret Rumer Godden
• Dec. 10th - Mary Norton
• Dec. 13th - Tamora Pierce
  • 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
  • Jerry Pinkney
• Dec. 23rd - Avi - interview on Crispin and video at Reading Rockets
• 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
• Dec. 28th - Carol Ryrie Brink
• Dec. 29th - Richard Atwater
• Dec. 30th - Rudyard Kipling

January - School Library Media.com list

• Jan. 2nd - Isaac Asimov
• Jan. 3rd - Carolyn Haywood
• Jan. 3rd - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Jan. 4th - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Jan. 6th - David Clement-Davies
  • David Clement-Davies Meet the author.com
  • David Clement-Davies interview
• Jan. 6th - Wendelin Van Draanen
• Jan. 7th - Minfong Ho
• Jan. 9th - Clyde Robert Bulla
• Jan. 10th - Sook Nyul Choi
  • Sook Nyul Choi - Meet the Authors video
• Jan. 11th - Robert C. O'Brien
  • Robert C. O'Brien pen name for Robert Conly
• Jan. 11th - Mary Rodgers
• Jan. 12th - Jack London
• Jan. 14th - Thorton Burgess
• Jan. 14th - Hugh Lofting
  • Hugh Lofting
• Jan. 17th - Robert Cormier
• Jan. 17th. - John Bellairs
  • John Bellairs
• Jan. 18th - A. A. Milne
• Jan. 19th - Nina Bawden
  • Nina Bawden
• Jan. 23rd - Carl Deuker
• Jan. 26th - Mary Mapes Dodge
• Jan. 27th - Lewis Carroll
• Jan. 27th - Julius Lester
• 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 - Children's Lit
  • Jerry Spinelli
• 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
  • E. L. Konigsburg
• Feb. 11 - Jane Yolen - interview at Reading Rockets
  • Jane Yolen - Children's Lit
• Feb. 12 - Judy Blume
  • Judy Blume
• Feb. 12 - Jacqueline Woodson
  • 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 - Amy Tan
  • Amy Tan
• Feb. 21 - Iain Lawrence
• Feb. 23 - Samuel Pepys
• Feb. 25 - Cynthia Voigt
  • Cynthia Voigt - Educational Paperback
• Feb. 28 - Megan McDonald
  • Judy Moody around the world in 8 1/2 days - Scholastic book talk video
• Feb. 28 - Donna Jo Napoli

March - School Library Media.com list

• March 2 - Dr. Seuss
• March 3 - Patricia MacLachlan - Harper Collins
  • Patricia MacLachlan - Eduplace
  • interview - Reading Rockets
    
• March 4 - Dav Pilkey
• March 5 - Mem Fox
  • Mem Fox Children's Lit
  • Mem Fox
• March 8 - Kenneth Grahame
• March 12 - Virginia Hamilton
  • Virginia Hamilton - Children's Lit
• March 13 - Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Naomi Shihab Nye
• March 13 - Thomas Rockwell- Children's lit
  • How to eat fried worms (movie site)
• March 14 - Marguerite de Angeli
• March 15 - Barbara Cohen
• March 15 - Ruth White
• March 16 - Sid Fleischman
  • Sid Fleischman
• March 20 - Lois Lowry - interview and video at Reading Rockets
  • Lois Lowry
• March 20 -Ellen Conford
• March 20 -Louis Sachar
• March 21 - Margaret Mahy
• March 21 - David Wisniewski Childrens Book Council
• March 22 - Randolph Caldecott Society
• March 25 - Kate DiCamillo - interview Reading Rockets
• March 25 - Linda Sue Park - interview Reading Rockets
• March 26 - Betty MacDonald Society
  • Betty MacDonald - HistoryLink
• March 27 - T. A. Barron
  • T. S. Barron - Children's Lit
• March 27 - Dick King-Smith
• March 27 - Patricia Wrede
• March 30 - Anna Sewell

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 5 - Richard Peck Carol Hurst site
  • Richard Peck Author Corner
• April 8 - Ruth Chew
• April 8 - Susan Bonners
• April 9 - Margaret Peterson Haddix
• April 10 -David Adler
  • David Adler - video interview - Reading Rockets
• April 11 - Graham Salisbury
• April 12 - C. W. Anderson
• April 12 - Beverly Cleary - interview Reading Rockets
• 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 17 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• April 20 - Mary Hoffman
• April 22 - Paula Fox
• April 26 - Patricia Reilly Giff - Greenville PL
• April 25 - Maud Hart Lovelace
• 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 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
  • Christopher Paul Curtis - video interview - Reading Rockets
  • Christopher Paul Curtis - Elijah of Buxton video interview - Scholastic
• May 11 - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• May 12 - Farley Mowat
• May 14 - Eoin Colfer - B&N author video
  • Artemis Fowl
  • Artemis Fowl author video
  • Arctic Incident author video
  • Legend of Spud Murphy - author video
  • Supernaturalists author video
• May 14 - George Selden
• May 15 - L. Frank Baum
• May 15 - Norma Fox Mazer
  • Norma Fox Mazer - TeenReads.com
• May 15 - Paul Zindel
• May 16 - Bruce Coville
  • Bruce Coville - Greenville PL
• May 17 - Gary Paulsen
  • Gary Paulsen - Greenville PL
• Gary Paulsen - Random House
• May 20 _ Mary Pope Osborne
• May 21 - Beverly Naidoo
• May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
• May 23 - Scott O'Dell
• May 23 - Susan Cooper
• 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
  • Frindle.com
  • No Talking - book talk video
• May 31 - Harry Mazer

June

Others - including author videos from Meet the Author.com

• David Almond - Clay (b. 5/15/1951)
• Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi of Spriderwick Chronicles
• Georgia Byng - Molly Moon's hypnotic Holiday
  • Molly Moon stops the world
• Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian - May 16th -movie trailer
• Zizou Corder - Lion Boy
  
• Jack Gantos - video interview - Reading Rockets
• Carol Gorman
• Erin Hunter - Warriors B&N video
  • B&N author video
• Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - online video from Borders
• Cynthia Lord
  • Cynthia Lord - video interview - 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)
• Pennypacker - Clementine Scholastic book talk video
• Celia Rees - Pirates
• Brian Selznick - Invention of Hugo Cabret - video interview - Scholastic
  • Brian Selznik video at Reading Rockets
• Darren Shan - Cirque du Freak
• Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Curiousity Chronicles newspaper - with more games
  • Mysterious Benedict Society.com - original game puzzles
• Eleanor Updale - Montmorency
• Scott Westerfeld - Midnighters