Celebrate the Author 2011
From the challenge site:
Becky over at Becky’s Book Reviews has hosted this challenge in the past. She has decided not to host this one in 2011, and has passed it on to me!! (Thanks Becky!)
Here are the details
For this challenge participants “celebrate” author birthdays. The challenge is designed to ‘celebrate’ the special bond–the connection–that occurs between the author AND the reader as well as the connection between readers. It is very easy to “bond” with other readers over certain works, certain authors, etc
Challenge runs from January 1 st 2011 until December 31st 2011
Choose one author for each month of the year.
Read at least one book a month. 12 authors. 12 birthdays. If you like, you can read MORE than that. Read the books in any order you wish. As long as you’ve got one book representing an author birthday from each month of the year by the end, then you’re good.
You can choose picture books, poetry books, early readers, chapter books, fiction for middle grades, fiction for teens, adult reads, nonfiction, whatever you want. If it is a book, it counts!
To find out author birthdays, visit these helpful sites:
Author birthdays by date (pdf), author birthdays by name (pdf), kidsreads.com, teenreads.com, author birthday directory, etc. or conduct google searches of your own. (Hint: typing the authors name, a “+” and the word ‘birthday’, tends to work if you assume that wikipedia gets such things right.)
No lists are necessary. You can make a list if you like. But you don’t have to make a list and stick to it.
Sign up by leaving a comment (include your link if you wish)!
If you’d like other participants to keep track of your progress, then I’d suggest having one post on your blog where you keep an as-you-go list. (If you don’t have a blog, then don’t worry about it! You’re still welcome to join in on the fun.)
You’re not required to post a list in advance, but I wanted to narrow my choices down before I started the challenge. :-) I picked three authors for each month and while I may not read all three, I’m going to try.
January
1920-01-02 Isaac Asimov
1882-01-18 A. A. Milne
1809-01-19 Edgar Allen Poe
February
1867-02-07 Laura Ingalls Wilder
1828-02-08 Jules Verne
1938-02-12 Judy Blume
March
1904-03-02 Dr. Seuss
1937-03-20 Lois Lowry
1874-03-26 Robert Frost
April
1926-04-01 Anne McCaffrey
1916-04-12 Beverly Cleary
1564-04-23 William Shakespeare
May
1860-05-09 Sir James M. Barrie
1938-05-13 Francine Pascal
1865-05-15 L. Frank Baum
June
1919-06-05 Richard Scarry
1939-06-15 Brian Jacques
1950-06-24 Mercedes Lackey
July
1907-07-07 Robert A. Heinlein
1866-07-28 Beatrix Potter
1965-07-31 J. K. Rowling
August
1819-08-01 Herman Melville
1890-08-20 H. P. Lovecraft
1797-008-30 Mary Shelley
September
1869-09-06 Felix Salten
1916-09-13 Roald Dahl
1923-09-29 Stan Berenstain
October
1920-10-08 Frank Hebert
1943-10-08 R. L. Stine
1929-10-21 Ursula K. Le Guin
November
1847-11-08 Bram Stoker
1850-11-13 Robert Louis Stevenson
1667-11-30 Jonathon Swift
December
1830-12-10 Emily Dickinson
1958-12-10 Cornleia Funke
1917-12-16 Arthur C. Clarke
Alysha DeShaé
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