{"id":720,"date":"2026-11-28T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-28T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:16:02","slug":"birthdays-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stephanie Calmenson<\/strong> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1952) has written at least 35 books for children. Her works include <em>The Principal&#8217;s New Clothes<\/em> and <em>Dinner at the Panda Palace<\/em>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniecalmenson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephanie Calmenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Young<\/strong> (born Tientsin, China, 1931; died Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, September 29, 2023) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. He wrote and illustrated 17 books and illustrated more than 60 books written by other authors. He wrote among other works <em>Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding-Hood Story from China<\/em> (1990 Caldecott Medal). His <em>Emperor and the Kite<\/em> received a 1968 Caldecott Honor Award. His <em>Seven Blind Mice<\/em> earned a 1992 Caldecott Honor Award. In 1992 and again in 2000 he was the United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Children can visit an interesting In Memoriam website: <a href=\"http:\/\/edyoungart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Young<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomi Ungerer<\/strong> (born Strasbourg, France, 1931; died Cork, Ireland, February 9, 2019) published over 140 children\u2019s books. His books have been translated into many different languages. He illustrated Jeff Brown\u2019s <em>Flat Stanley<\/em> in 1964. Children can visit Ungerer\u2019s website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomiungerer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomi Ungerer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Calmenson (born Brooklyn, New York, 1952) has written at least 35 books for children. Her works include The Principal&#8217;s New Clothes and Dinner at the Panda Palace. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Stephanie Calmenson. Ed Young (born Tientsin, China, 1931; died Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, September 29, 2023) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. He wrote <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=720' 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":[4059,6062,4058,4060],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-ed-young","tag-november-28-birthdays","tag-stephanie-calmenson","tag-tomi-ungerer","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\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28723,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/28723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}