{"id":6506,"date":"2026-08-09T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:52:32","slug":"birthdays-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6506","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jose Aruego<\/b> (born Manila, Philippines, 1932; died New York, New York, August 9, 2012) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. Idea: Children\u00a0could read and enjoy some of his work, especially <i>Mitchel is Moving. <\/i>They could learn more at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/aruego-joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Jose Aruego.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Patricia McKissack<\/b> (born Nashville, Tennessee, 1944; died Saint Louis, Missouri, April 7, 2017) was a children\u2019s author of great acclaim. She and her late husband Fredrick wrote and illustrated over 100 books together. <i>A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter<\/i> earned the 1990 Coretta Scott King Medal and the 1990 Jane Addams Book Award. <i>Sojourner Truth: Ain\u2019t I a Woman?<\/i> received a 1993 Coretta Scott King Honor Award. <i>The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural<\/i> was a 1993 Newbery Honor Book and the 1993 Coretta Scott King Medal winner. McKissack earned another Coretta Scott King Medal in 1995 for <i>Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters<\/i> and still another Coretta Scott King Honor Award in 1997 for <i>Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts.<\/i> McKissack earned still more Coretta Scott King Honor Awards: one in 2000 for <i>Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers<\/i> and one in 2004 for <i>Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Seymour Simon <\/b>(born New York, New York, 1931) is a children\u2019s author. He has written about 250 nonfiction books about many different subjects. All of his books, including <i>Big Cats<\/i> and <i>Neptune<\/i>, reflect thoughtful research. Children could visit his amazing website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymoursimon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seymour Simon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>P. L. Travers<\/b> (born Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 1899; died London, England, April 23, 1996) was an author. She wrote the <i>Mary Poppins<\/i> series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Aruego (born Manila, Philippines, 1932; died New York, New York, August 9, 2012) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. Idea: Children\u00a0could read and enjoy some of his work, especially Mitchel is Moving. They could learn more at:\u00a0Jose Aruego. Patricia McKissack (born Nashville, Tennessee, 1944; died Saint Louis, Missouri, April 7, 2017) was a children\u2019s <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6506' 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":[1063,1077,1080,1078,1079],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-august-9","tag-jose-aruego","tag-p-l-travers","tag-patricia-mckissack","tag-seymour-simon","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\/6506","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=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22786,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/22786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}