{"id":2051,"date":"2026-01-22T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:44:34","slug":"birthdays-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andre Ampere<\/strong> (born Lyons, France, 1775; died Marseilles, France, June 10, 1836) was a physicist specializing in electricity. The ampere, a measure of electrical current, is named for him. Children could conduct some <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">great electricity experiments<\/span><\/strong> by following the directions at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/science-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/science-center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerry Craft<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1963) is a cartoonist (Mama&#8217;s Boyz) and a children&#8217;s book author\/illustrator. He earned the 2020 Newbery Medal and the 2020 Coretta Scott King Author Medal for his graphic novel <em>New Kid<\/em>. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/jerrycraft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Craft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blair Lent<\/strong> (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1930; died Medford, Massachusetts, January 27, 2009) wrote and illustrated children\u2019s books. He received a 1965 Caldecott Honor Award for <em>The Wave<\/em>, a 1969 Caldecott Honor Award for <em>Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky: An African Folktale,<\/em> and the 1973 Caldecott Medal for <em>The Funny Little Woman<\/em>. \u00a0Perhaps he is most famous for illustrating Arlene Mosel\u2019s<em> Tikki Tikki Tembo<\/em>. He also wrote and illustrated <em>Molasses Flood<\/em>, a story about the Boston Molasses Disaster, which occurred on January 15, 1919. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/lent-blair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blair Lent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Wildsmith<\/strong> (born Penistone, England, 1930; died Grasse, France, August 31, 2016) illustrated at least thirteen books for children. His first book, <em>ABC<\/em>, received the Kate Greenaway Award in 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Ampere (born Lyons, France, 1775; died Marseilles, France, June 10, 1836) was a physicist specializing in electricity. The ampere, a measure of electrical current, is named for him. Children could conduct some great electricity experiments by following the directions at: http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/science-center. Jerry Craft (born New York, New York, 1963) is a cartoonist (Mama&#8217;s Boyz) <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2051' 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":[5096,5097,5098,6129],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-andre-ampere","tag-blair-lent","tag-brian-wildsmith","tag-january-22-birthdays","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\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25490,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/25490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}