{"id":6064,"date":"2026-07-13T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:04:41","slug":"birthdays-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6064","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcia<\/b> Brown<\/b> (born Rochester, New York, 1918; died Laguna Hills, California, April 28, 2015) was\u00a0an author and illustrator. She created more than 30 books. She received three Caldecott Medals: Cinderella <\/i>in 1955; Once a Mouse<\/i> in 1962; and Shadow<\/i> in 1983. She also earned six Caldecott Honor Awards: Stone Soup, an Old Tale<\/i> in 1948; Henry, Fisherman, a Tale of the Virgin Islands<\/i> in 1950; Dick Whittington and His Cat<\/i> in 1951; Skipper John\u2019s Cook<\/i> in 1952; Puss in Boots<\/i> in 1953; and The Steadfast Tin Soldier<\/i> in 1954. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was presented to her in 1992 for her body of works. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Marcia Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ashley Bryan<\/b> (born New York, New York, 1923; died Sugar Land, Texas, February 4, 2022) was a picture book author and illustrator. He earned two Coretta Scott King Medals for illustration: in 1981 for Beat the Story Drum, Pum Pum<\/i> and in 2008 for Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals<\/i>. He also earned seven Coretta Scott King Honor Awards: in 1983 for I\u2019m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals<\/i>; in 1988 for What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals<\/i>; in 1992 for All Night, All Day: A Child\u2019s First Book of African American Spirituals<\/i>; in 1998 for Ashley Bryan\u2019s ABC of African American Poetry<\/i>; in 2004 for Beautiful Blackbird<\/i>; and in 1987 he received both the story award and the illustration award for Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales<\/i>. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was presented to him in 2009 for his body of works. In 2017 he earned a Newbery Honor Award for Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan<\/em>. Children can learn more at: Ashley Bryan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Dooling<\/b> (born 1958) has written six books and has illustrated at least 65 books. His books include George Washington\u2019s Army and Me<\/i> and Young Thomas Edison<\/i>. Children can visit his website at: Michael Dooling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anna Grossnickle Hines<\/b> (born Cincinnati, Ohio, 1946) has written and\/or illustrated at least 50 books for children. Her works include William\u2019s Turn<\/i> and My Pat-a-Cake Grandma<\/i>. Children can visit her website at: http:\/\/www.aghines.com\/<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcia Brown (born Rochester, New York, 1918; died Laguna Hills, California, April 28, 2015) was\u00a0an author and illustrator. She created more than 30 books. She received three Caldecott Medals: Cinderella in 1955; Once a Mouse in 1962; and Shadow in 1983. She also earned six Caldecott Honor Awards: Stone Soup, an Old Tale in 1948; […]<\/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":[675,673,6294,672,674],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-anna-grossnickle-hines","tag-ashley-bryan","tag-july-13-birthdays","tag-marcia-brown","tag-michael-dooling","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\/6064","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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25731,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/25731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}