{"id":7107,"date":"2026-09-05T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:23:58","slug":"birthdays-297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7107","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7485\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7485\" class=\"wp-image-7485 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gloria-Pinkney.jpg\" alt=\"Gloria Pinkney\" width=\"140\" height=\"184\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunday Outing<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Paul Fleischman<\/b> (born Monterey, California, 1952) has written at least 35 books for children. He is the son of Sid Fleischman. <i>Graven Images<\/i> received a 1983 Newbery Honor Award. His book <i>Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices<\/i> earned the 1989 Newbery Medal. Idea: Children\u00a0could read and enjoy some of his works. One of his books, <i>Bull Run<\/i>, describes the Civil War from various points of view. That book was awarded the 1989 Scott O\u2019Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Children can visit his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulfleischman.net\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Fleischman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erin Entrada Kelly<\/strong> (born Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1977) writes books for children. She received the 2018 Newbery Medal for <em>Hello, Universe.\u00a0<\/em>She also received a 2021 Newbery Honor Award for <em>We Dream of Space<\/em>. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinentradakelly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin Entrada Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gloria Jean Pinkney<\/b> (born Lumberton, North Carolina, 1941) is a children\u2019s book author and an ordained minister. She is the wife of Jerry Pinkney and the mother of Brian Pinkney. Her books include <i>Sunday Outing<\/i> and <i>Back Home<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Fleischman (born Monterey, California, 1952) has written at least 35 books for children. He is the son of Sid Fleischman. Graven Images received a 1983 Newbery Honor Award. His book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices earned the 1989 Newbery Medal. Idea: Children\u00a0could read and enjoy some of his works. One of his books, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7107' 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":[1461,1460,6344],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-gloria-jean-pinkney","tag-paul-fleischman","tag-september-5-birthdays","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\/7107","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=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29687,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/29687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}