{"id":6223,"date":"2026-07-26T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:38:24","slug":"birthdays-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6223","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan Berenstain<\/b> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1923; died New Hope, Pennsylvania, February 24, 2012) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. She and her husband Stan created the Berenstain Bears<\/i> series. Over 300 books were published in at least 23 languages. Children could visit a website at: Berenstain Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George Catlin<\/b> (born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1796; died Jersey City, New Jersey, December 23, 1872) was an artist. He is most known for his studies of Native Americans. Children can view some of his works at: George Catlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

R. Gregory Christie<\/strong> (born Plainfield, New Jersey, 1971) illustrates children’s books. He received a 2017 Caldecott Honor Award for Freedom in Congo Square.\u00a0<\/em>Children can learn more at: R. Gregory Christie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stephen Cosgrove<\/b> (born Metaline Falls, Washington, 1946) has written at least 300 books for children. He also designs toys. His books include Leo the Lop<\/em> and Serendipity<\/em>. Children can visit his website at: Stephen Cosgrove<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Margaret Hodges<\/strong> (born Indianapolis, Indiana, 1911; died Oakmont, Pennsylvania, December 13, 2005) wrote more than 40 books for children. Her Saint George and the Dragon<\/em> was illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, who received the 1985 Caldecott Medal for her work.<\/p>\n

Aldous Huxley<\/b> (born Godalming, Surrey, England, 1894; died Los Angeles, California, November 22, 1963) was a writer and philosopher. One of his most well-known works is Brave New World.<\/i><\/p>\n

George Bernard Shaw<\/b> (born Dublin, Ireland, 1856; died Ayot St. Lawrence, England, November 2, 1950) was a playwright. He received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and a 1938 Oscar for his play Pygmalion<\/i>. Children can read many of his works at: Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan Berenstain (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1923; died New Hope, Pennsylvania, February 24, 2012) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. She and her husband Stan created the Berenstain Bears series. Over 300 books were published in at least 23 languages. Children could visit a website at: Berenstain Bears. George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1796; died Jersey […]<\/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":[885,884,881,880,6306,883,882],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-george-catlin","tag-jan-berenstain","tag-july-26-birthdays","tag-margaret-hodges","tag-stephen-cosgrove","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\/6223","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=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26594,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions\/26594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}