Tuesday January 1 New Year's Day
Thursday January 10 Islamic New Year 1429
Monday January 21 Martin Luther King Day
Saturday February 2 Groundhog's Day (Candlemas; Midwinter: halfway between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox)
Tuesday February 5 Mardi Gras
Wednesday February 6 Ash Wednesday - Lent begins
*Thursday February 7 Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Tuesday February 12 Lincoln's Birthday
Thursday February 14 Valentine's Day
Monday February 18 Presidents' Day (Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays celebrated together)
Friday February 22 Washington's Birthday
Friday February 29 Leap Day
Sunday March 9 Daylight Savings Time begins - Spring ahead
Monday March 17 St Patrick's Day
Thursday March 20 Vernal Equinox
Friday March 21 Good Friday
Sunday March 23 Easter
Tuesday April 1 April Fool's day
Sunday April 20 First day of Passover
Tuesday April 22 Earth Day
Friday April 25 Arbor Day
Thursday May 1 May Day
Monday May 5 Cinco de Mayo
Sunday May 11 Mother's Day
Monday May 26 Memorial Day - the unofficial start of summer
Saturday June 14 Flag Day
Sunday June 15 Father's Day
Friday June 20 Summer Solstice
Tuesday July 1 Canada Day
Friday July 4 Independence Day
Monday September 1 Labor Day - last day of summer
Monday September 22 Autumnal Equinox
Tuesday September 30 Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year 5769
Thursday October 9 Yom Kippur
Monday October 13 Columbus Day
Friday October 31 Halloween
Sunday November 2 Daylight Savings time ends - Fall behind
Tuesday November 4 Election Day
Tuesday November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday November 2 Thanksgiving
Sunday December 21 Winter Solstice
Monday December 22 First day of Chanukah
Thursday December 25 Christmas Day
Friday December 26 Kwanzaa
Wednesday December 31 New Year's Eve
*A Rat Year is a time of hard work, activity, and renewal. This is a good year to begin a new job, get married, launch a product or make a fresh start.
A A Milne - Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 - January 31, 1956). Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corners, When I Was Very Young, Now I Am Six
Lewis Carroll - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 - February 10, 1957) The Little House on the Prairie books
Dr Seuss - Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. 44 children's books, including Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 - July 6, 1932) The Wind in the Willows
Garth Williams (April 16, 1912 - May 8, 1996)
Peter Sis (May 11, 1949 Brno, Czechoslovakia)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 just east of Syracuse in Chittenango, NY - May 6, 1919). Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz, and others
Richard Scarry (June 5, 1919 - April 30, 1994, last name pronounced like "scary") Boston. Illustrated over 300 books including the Eloise books
Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY). His repeated motif: a moon somewhere in the picture watching over the scene. Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen
Eric Carle (June 25, 1929). The Very Hungry Caterpillar and 70 other books
E B White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, NY - October 1, 1985). Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
Joanne - Jo Rowling (July 31, 1965). The Harry Potter books
Beatrix Potter (July 28, 1866 - December 22, 1943). Peter Rabbit and others
Jessie Wilcox Smith (September 6, 1863 in Philadelphia - 1935).
Shel Silverstein (September 25 - May 10, 1999)
Hilary Knight (November 1)
Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910). Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi, Pudd'nhead Wilson
Jean de Brunhoff (December 9, 1899 - October 16, 1937) 7 Babar books. Laurent de Brunhoff, son of the creator (born August 30, 1925, Paris, France), continued his father's work as the author and illustrator of 30 more Babar books
Peggy Rathmann Good Night, Gorilla