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Charles William Beebe<\/strong> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1877; died Trinidad, June 4, 1962) was a naturalist and an adventurer. He headed expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, Borneo, and other places. He wrote approximately 300 articles and books. One of the books was Jungle Days<\/i>, published in 1925. Young adults could read some of his early writings at: Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sharon Creech<\/strong> (born South Euclid, Ohio, 1945) has written at least 21 books for children. Her book Walk Two Moons<\/i> received the 1995 Newbery Medal. Children can visit her website at: Sharon Creech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adele Griffin<\/strong> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970) has written at least 30 books for children and young adults. Her books include Sons of Liberty<\/i> and Where I Want to Be<\/i>. Young adults could visit her website at: Adele Griffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Krull<\/strong> (born Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, 1952; died San Diego, California, January 15, 2021) wrote at least 60 books, including many biographies, for children. Wilma Unlimited<\/i> earned a 1997 Jane Addams Picture Book Award. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez<\/i> received both a 2004 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Honor Award and a 2004 Jane Addams Picture Book Award.<\/p>\n

Connie Porter<\/strong> (born Buffalo, New York, 1959) has written at least thirteen books for children and young adults. Her books include the Addy<\/i> series, part of the American Girl collection. Children can visit a website at: Connie Porter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt<\/strong> (born Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1861; died New York, New York, February 14, 1884) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States. However, he was not president at that time. They were married for only about three years when she died shortly after giving birth to their daughter, Alice.<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e Watson<\/strong> (born Paterson, New Jersey, 1978) has written at least nine books for children. She received both a 2018 Newbery Honor Award and a 2018 Coretta Scott King Author Award for Piecing Me Together<\/em>. Other works include What Momma Left Me<\/em> and Ways to Make Sunshine<\/em>. Children can learn more at: Ren\u00e9e Watson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles William Beebe (born Brooklyn, New York, 1877; died Trinidad, June 4, 1962) was a naturalist and an adventurer. He headed expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, Borneo, and other places. He wrote approximately 300 articles and books. One of the books was Jungle Days, published in 1925. Young adults could read some of his early […]<\/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":[921,923,919,924,6309,922,920],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-adele-griffin","tag-alice-hathaway-lee-roosevelt","tag-charles-william-beebe","tag-connie-porter","tag-july-29-birthdays","tag-kathleen-krull","tag-sharon-creech","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\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27770,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/27770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}