{"id":317,"date":"2026-11-10T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:42:51","slug":"birthdays-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holly Black<\/strong> (born West Long Branch, New Jersey, 1971) is a children\u2019s author. She and Tony DiTerlizzi wrote <em>The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/em>. Children could visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackholly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holly Black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Gaiman<\/strong> (born Portchest, United Kingdom, 1960) is a children\u2019s author and graphic novelist. His book <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em> won the Newbery Medal in 2009. Children could visit his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Luther<\/strong> (born Eisleben, Saxony, 1483; died Eisleben, Saxony, February 18, 1546) was a priest who actually started the Protestant movement. He nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Wittenberg\u2019s castle church on October 31, 1517. He also was an accomplished musician. He was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and married a former nun, Katherine von Bora.\u00a0Older children could read a transcription in English of his statements at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/luther95.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninety-Five Theses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Seredy<\/strong> (born Budapest, Hungary, 1899; died Middletown, New York, March 7, 1975) wrote and illustrated at least twelve books for children. In addition, she illustrated at least 50 books and textbooks written by other authors. Her <em>The Good Master<\/em> was awarded a 1935 Newbery Honor Award. <em>The White Stag<\/em> won the 1936 Newbery Medal. Then <em>The Singing Tree<\/em> was awarded a 1940 Newbery Honor Award. Her illustrations for <em>The Christmas Anna Angel,<\/em> written by Ruth Sawyer,\u00a0were recognized with a 1945 Caldecott Honor Award. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Notice she earned both Newbery and Caldecott Awards &#8211; quite an accomplishment!<\/strong><\/span> Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/seredy-kate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kate Seredy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Black (born West Long Branch, New Jersey, 1971) is a children\u2019s author. She and Tony DiTerlizzi wrote The Spiderwick Chronicles. Children could visit her website at: Holly Black. Neil Gaiman (born Portchest, United Kingdom, 1960) is a children\u2019s author and graphic novelist. His book The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal in 2009. Children <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=317' 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":[3854,3856,3264,3855,6009],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-holly-black","tag-kate-seredy","tag-martin-luther","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-november-10-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\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26862,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/26862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}