{"id":2807,"date":"2026-02-21T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:48:31","slug":"birthdays-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Aylesworth<\/strong> (born Jacksonville, Florida, 1943) has written at least twenty books for children. His books include <em>The Mitten<\/em> and <em>The Bad Dream<\/em>. His book <em>My Grandfather&#8217;s Coat<\/em> received the 2015 Sydney Taylor Award (Younger Readers&#8217; Category). Children can visit his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Aylesworth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Hermes<\/strong> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1936; died Phoenix, Arizona, July 11, 2018) wrote at least 50 books for children. Her works include a number of books in the My America Series, including <em>Our Strange New Land<\/em> and <em>A Perfect Place<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruthanne Lum McCunn<\/strong> (born San Francisco, 1946) writes books for children. Her works include <em>Thousand Pieces of Gold<\/em> and <em>God of Luck.\u00a0<\/em>Children can visit her website at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccunn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruthanne Lum McCunn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve<\/strong> (born Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1936) has written at least sixteen children&#8217;s books regarding Native Americans. Her works include <em>Lana&#8217;s Lakota Moons<\/em> and <em>When Thunders Spoke<\/em>. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/about\/awards\/national-humanities-medals\/virginia-driving-hawk-sneve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Aylesworth (born Jacksonville, Florida, 1943) has written at least twenty books for children. His books include The Mitten and The Bad Dream. His book My Grandfather&#8217;s Coat received the 2015 Sydney Taylor Award (Younger Readers&#8217; Category). Children can visit his website at: Jim Aylesworth. Patricia Hermes (born Brooklyn, New York, 1936; died Phoenix, Arizona, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2807' 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":[6157,5337,5338,5339,5340],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-february-21-birthdays","tag-jim-aylesworth","tag-patricia-hermes","tag-ruthann-lum-mccunn","tag-virginia-driving-hawk-sneve","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\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26162,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/26162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}