{"id":6088,"date":"2026-07-15T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:48:14","slug":"birthdays-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6088","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas Bulfinch<\/strong> (born Newton, Massachusetts, 1798; died Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 1867) was a mythologist. He wrote <i>Bulfinch\u2019s Mythology<\/i>. Idea: Children\u00a0could create some plays about some of the myths after they read <i>Bulfinch\u2019s Mythology<\/i> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walter D. Edmonds<\/strong> (born Boonville, New York, 1903; died Concord, Massachusetts, January 24, 1998) wrote books for both children and adults. He received the 1942 Newbery Medal for <i>The Matchlock Gun<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcia Thornton Jones<\/strong> (born Joliet, Illinois, 1958) has written over 135 books for children. Her books include <i>The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids<\/i> series and <i>Ratfink<\/i>. Children can visit her website, particularly the Activities and Fun Stuff link, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marciatjones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcia T. Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clement Clarke Moore<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1779; died Newport, Rhode Island, July 10, 1863) wrote <i>A Visit from Saint Nicholas.<\/i> It was published without his permission in a newspaper on December 23, 1823. Idea: Children could celebrate a little Christmas in July and read <i>A Visit from Saint Nicholas<\/i> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yuko Shimizu<\/strong> (born Tokyo, Japan, 1965) is an illustrator. Her illustrations in <em>The Cat Man of Aleppo<\/em>, written by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha, earned her a 2021 Caldecott Honor Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rembrandt Van Rijn<\/strong> (born Leiden, Netherlands, 1606; died Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 4, 1669) was a painter. He was a prolific artist. About 600 paintings and 1,400 drawings have survived. He created about 100 self-portraits, giving us a great deal of information about himself. Children could visit a website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/rmbt\/hd_rmbt.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rembrandt Van Rijn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Bulfinch (born Newton, Massachusetts, 1798; died Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 1867) was a mythologist. He wrote Bulfinch\u2019s Mythology. Idea: Children\u00a0could create some plays about some of the myths after they read Bulfinch\u2019s Mythology at: Project Gutenberg. Walter D. 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