{"id":4962,"date":"2026-05-26T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:47:47","slug":"birthdays-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Julia DeVillers<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer Roy<\/strong> (born Colonie, New York, 1981) are twins who write books for children and young adults. DeVillers\u2019s works include <em>Lynnvisible<\/em> and <em>How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Best Seller<\/em>. Roy\u2019s works include the <em>Math All Around<\/em> series and <em>Yellow Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheila Greenwald<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1934) has written and illustrated at least 30 books for children. Her works include the <em>Rosy<\/em> series and <em>The Secret Museum<\/em>. Children could visit her website at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilagreenwald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheila Greenwald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19509\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19509\" class=\" wp-image-19509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sally-Ride.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Ride<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sally Kristen Ride<\/strong> (born Encino, California, 1951; died La Jolla, California, July 23, 2012) was the first American woman to travel in space. Dr. Ride flew on a six-day Challenger mission that was launched June 24, 1983. She co-wrote five books for children regarding space and science. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/k-4\/stories\/nasa-knows\/who-was-sally-ride-k4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sally Ride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisbeth Zwerger<\/strong> (born Vienna, Austria, 1954) has illustrated at least 30 children\u2019s books and stories. She received the 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Award for her lifetime achievements. She illustrated J. K. Rowling&#8217;s &#8220;The Tales of Beedle the Bard.&#8221; She also illustrated the 1999 version of <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy (born Colonie, New York, 1981) are twins who write books for children and young adults. DeVillers\u2019s works include Lynnvisible and How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Best Seller. Roy\u2019s works include the Math All Around series and Yellow Star. Sheila Greenwald (born New York, New York, 1934) has written <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4962' 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":[2213,2212,2214,6241,345],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-jennifer-roy","tag-julia-devillers","tag-lisbeth-zwerger","tag-may-26-birthdays","tag-sally-ride","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\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27587,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/27587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}