FEBRUARY is
American Heart Month http://www.americanheart.org
Black History Month http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/governorsoffice/black_history/index.html
Children’s Dental Health Month http://www.ada.org/public/news/ncdhm/index.asp
Library Lovers’ Month (CA) http://www.librarysupport.net/librarylovers/
National Wild Bird Feeding Month http://www.birdfeeding.org/february.html
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Langston Hughes birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm
Jerry Spinelli birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/spinelli.htm
Robinson Crusoe Day http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9899/Feb01_99/crusoe.htm
National Freedom Day http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/pa/free_1
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Rebecca Caudill birthday http://www.rebeccacaudill.org/
Eve Rice birthday – SAM, WHO NEVER FORGETS
Judith Viorst birthday http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=62
Groundhog Day http://www.groundhog.org/
African American Read-In (Schools) http://www.ncte.org/college/section/inbox/107901.htm
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Walt Morey birthday – GENTLE BEN
Joan Lowery Nixon birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/nixon.htm
Setsubun (Japan) – Bean Scattering Festival http://www.whatsontheplanet.com/wow/ptnr/discovery/page.jsp?fx=event&event_id=24310
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Barbara Shook Hazen birthday http://www.barbarashookhazen.com/
Russell Hoban birthday http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author22001.html
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Patricia Lauber birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lauber.htm
David Wiesner birthday http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/wiesner.mspx
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Betsy Duffey birthday – HOW TO BE COOL IN THE THIRD GRADE http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000009601,00.html
Berta Hader birthday -- PANCHO
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Charles Dickens birthday http://www.dickens-literature.com/l_biography.html
Fred Gipson birthday http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=2409
Laura Ingalls Wilder birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/wilder.htm
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Adrienne Adams birthday http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/adams.htm
Anne Rockwell birthday http://www.childrenslit.com/f_annerockwell.html
Jules Verne birthday http://jv.gilead.org.il/
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Dick Gackenbach birthday http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/gackenba.htm
Stephen Roos birthday -- RECYCLING GEORGE
Alice Walker birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/walker.htm
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Stephen Gammell birthday http://www.bookpage.com/0006bp/stephen_gammell.html
E.L. Konigsburg birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/konigsburg.htm
Charles Lamb birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lamb.htm
Mark Teague birthday (1963) http://www.scholastic.com/titles/authors/teague/
Lucy Cousins http://www.candlewick.com/authill.asp?b=author&m=bio&id=1778&pix=n
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Jane Yolen birthday http://www.janeyolen.com/index.html
James Rice http://users.htcomp.net/ricestudios/
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Judy Blume birthday http://www.judyblume.com/menu-main.html
David Small birthday http://www.pippinproperties.com/authill/small/
Jacqueline Woodson birthday http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/index.html
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Janet Taylor Lisle birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lisle.htm
Ouida Sebestyen birthday http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/sebestye.htm
William Sleator birthday http://www.tycho.org/sleator.shtml
Simms Taback birthday – http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000031606,00.html
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Jamake Highwater birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/natauth.htm#P
George Shannon birthday http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/lac/notable/1996notable.htm#George
Paul O. Zelinsky birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/zelinsky.htm
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Betty Boegehold birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/boegehold.htm
Norman Bridwell birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/bridwell.htm
Richard Chase birthday – COMPLETE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS
Doris Orgel birthday http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/ORGEL,D.htm
Norman Rockwell birthday http://www.nrm.org/norman/
Elaine Landau http://www.elainelandau.com/
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Robert Newton Peck birthday http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=101
Susan Beth Pfeffer birthday http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=23830
Virginia Sorensen Waugh birthday – MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL
Michael McCurdy http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/
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Barbara Joosse birthday http://www.barbarajoosse.com/
Toni Morrison birthday http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_morrison_toni.htm
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Jill Krementz birthday – HOW IT FEELS WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE
Louis Slobodkin birthday http://www.lib.usm.edu/libraryfocus/spring00/art.html MANY MOONS
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Mary Blount Christian birthday – SEBESTEYN SUPER SLEUTH series
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Jim Aylesworth birthday http://www.ayles.com/
Ruthanne L. McCunn birthday http://www.mccunn.com
Patricia Hermes birthday http://www.balkinbuddies.com/hermes/index.html
Virginia Driving birthday
Hawk Sneve birthday
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Roma Gans birthday
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C.S. Adler birthday
Laura Geringer birthday
Walter Wick http://www.walterwick.com/welcome/welcome_main.html
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Mary Ellen Chase birthday
Wilhelm Karl Grimm birthday
Uri Orlev birthday
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Frank Bonham birthday
Iain Lawrence birthday http://www.randomhouse.com/features/iainlawrence/
Cynthia Voight birthday http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=109
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Sharon Bell Mathis birthday
Colby Rodowsky birthday http://www.childrenslit.com/f_rodowsky.html
Bernard Wolf birthday
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Florence Parry Heide birthday http://www.candlewick.com/authill.asp?b=author&m=bio&id=1939&pix=n
Mary Kay Kroeger birthday
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthday http://www.mainehistory.org/house_henry.shtml
Uri Shulevitz birthday http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/shulevitz.htm
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Dee Brown birthday http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/brown_dee_ar1.htm
Donna Jo Napoli birthday http://www.donnajonapoli.com/
Megan McDonald http://www.meganmcdonald.net/
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Susan L. Roth http://www.childrensbookguild.org/roth.htm