{"id":4661,"date":"2026-05-05T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:28:09","slug":"birthdays-187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4661","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nellie Bly<\/strong> (born Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 1867; died New York, New York, January 22, 1922) was perhaps the leading female journalist of her time. She worked for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, reporting on working conditions, slum life and other topics. She moved to New York and worked on Pulitzer\u2019s New York World. She pretended to be insane, and she was institutionalized. She then reported on the extreme conditions she found there. Perhaps her most exciting adventure came when she followed the route of Jules Verne\u2019s imaginary Phileas Fogg and traveled around the world in 72 days<\/strong><\/span>. Children could read or listen to copies of her books at: Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Children could also read Bonnie Christensen\u2019s The Daring Nellie Bly: America\u2019s Star Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

J. Patrick Lewis<\/strong> (born Gary, Indiana, 1942) has written over 100 poetry and and fiction books for children. His books include the Tugg and Tiny<\/em> series and What\u2019s Looking at You, Kid?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Inch by Inch<\/p><\/div>\n

Leo Lionni<\/strong> (born Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1910; died Chianti, Italy, October 11, 1999) was an author\/illustrator of over 40 books. He earned four Caldecott Honor Awards: Inch by Inch<\/em> in 1961, Swimmy<\/em> in 1964, Frederick<\/em> in 1968, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse<\/em> in 1970.<\/p>\n

Todd Strasser<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1950) has written more than 140 books for middle-grade children. He also uses the pen names Morton Rhue and T. S. Rue. His books include The Wave<\/em> and Thief of Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 1867; died New York, New York, January 22, 1922) was perhaps the leading female journalist of her time. She worked for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, reporting on working conditions, slum life and other topics. She moved to New York and worked on Pulitzer\u2019s New York World. […]<\/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":[1898,1899,6222,1897,1900],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-j-patrick-lewis","tag-leo-lionni","tag-may-5-birthdays","tag-nellie-bly","tag-todd-strasser","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\/4661","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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30591,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/30591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}