{"id":6909,"date":"2026-08-31T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:24:08","slug":"birthdays-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6909","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conrad Buff II<\/strong> (born Speicher, Switzerland, 1886; died Laguna Hills, Calfiornia, March 11, 1975) wrote and illustrated fourteen books with his wife, Mary Buff. Theiy received a Caldecott Honor Award in 1943 for <em>Dash and Dart<\/em>. They received three Newbery Honor Awards: in 1947 for <em>The Big Tree<\/em>, in 1952 for <em>The Apple and the Arrow<\/em>, and in 1954 for <em>Magic Maize<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alan Jay Lerner<\/b> (born New York, New York, 1918; died New York, New York, June 14, 1986) was a lyricist. He teamed with Frederick Lowe on many musicals, including <i>My Fair Lady<\/i> and <i>Camelot.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Kenneth Oppel <\/b>(born Canada, 1967) has written at least 35 books for children and young adults. His books include the <i>Silverwing<\/i> saga and the <i>Airborn<\/i> series. Young adults can visit his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennethoppel.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Oppel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Itzhak Perlman<\/b> (born Tel Aviv, Israel, 1945) is a famous violinist.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deborah Kogan Ray<\/b> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1940) has written at least seventeen books for children. She has also illustrated at least 60 books for children written by other authors. Her books include <i>Wanda Gag: The Girl Who Loved to Draw<\/i> and <i>Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca<\/i>. Children can visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deborah Kogan Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conrad Buff II (born Speicher, Switzerland, 1886; died Laguna Hills, Calfiornia, March 11, 1975) wrote and illustrated fourteen books with his wife, Mary Buff. Theiy received a Caldecott Honor Award in 1943 for Dash and Dart. They received three Newbery Honor Awards: in 1947 for The Big Tree, in 1952 for The Apple and the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6909' 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":[1397,6339,1400,1399,1398],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-alan-jay-lerner","tag-august-31-birthdays","tag-deborah-kogan-ray","tag-itzhak-perlman","tag-kenneth-oppel","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\/6909","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=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26636,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}