{"id":1502,"date":"2026-12-19T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-12-19T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:06:32","slug":"birthdays-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eve Bunting<\/strong> (born Maghera, Northern Ireland, 1928; died Santa Cruz, California, October 1, 2023) was a children\u2019s author. She wrote more than 250 books, including <em>Fly Away Home<\/em>. She received the 1976 Golden Kite Award for <em>One More Flight<\/em>. She also received the 1993 Edgar Award for<em> Coffin on a Case<\/em>. Children can see a video interview of Eve at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingrockets.org\/books\/interviews\/bunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eve Bunting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir William Edward Parry<\/strong> (born Bath, England, 1790; died Ems, Germany, July 8, 1855) was an explorer. He led expeditions to the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Children could explore the concept of the Northwest Passage. Why was it so important to the United Kingdom?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleanor H. Porter<\/strong> (born Littleton, New Hampshire, 1868; died Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21, 1920) was a children\u2019s author. She wrote both short stories and novels. Her most well-known work is <em>Pollyanna<\/em>, published in 1913. Children can read many of her works, including <em>Pollyanna<\/em>, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. They can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/porter-eleanor-h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleanor H. Porter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Bunting (born Maghera, Northern Ireland, 1928; died Santa Cruz, California, October 1, 2023) was a children\u2019s author. She wrote more than 250 books, including Fly Away Home. She received the 1976 Golden Kite Award for One More Flight. She also received the 1993 Edgar Award for Coffin on a Case. Children can see a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1502' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6095,4583,4581,4582],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-december-19-birthdays","tag-eleanor-h-porter","tag-eve-bunting","tag-sir-william-edward-parry","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28305,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/28305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}