Portal:Children's literature/Selected anniversaries/May

• 4 May 1980 – The US Congress passes the Department of Education Organization Act, establishing the United States Department of Education
• 15 May 2004 - Death of Mexican American feminist, author, poet, scholar and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• 17 May 1900 - Printing of the first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pictured)
• 22 May 1849 – Death of Maria Edgeworth, one of the first realist children's writers
• 29 May 1839 – Birth of Mary Louisa Molesworth, the "Jane Austen of the nursery"