{"id":7641,"date":"2026-10-03T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:47:16","slug":"birthdays-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7641","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Natalie Savage Carlson<\/b> (born Kernstown, Virginia, 1906; died Middletown, Rhode Island, September 23, 1997) wrote at least eighteen books for children. She received a 1959 Newbery Honor Award for <i>The Family Under the Bridge<\/i>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/carlson-natalie-savage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natalie Savage Carlson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly Cone<\/strong> (born Tacoma, Washington, 1918; died March 26, 2016) wrote over 45 books for children. Her works include the <em>Mishmash<\/em> series. and <em>Come Back, Salmon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>James Alfred Wight Herriot<\/b> (born Glasgow, Scotland, 1916; died Yorkshire, England, February 23, 1995) was a writer and veterinarian. He wrote among other works <i>All Creatures Great and Small.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Himmelman<\/strong> (born Kittery, Maine, 1959) has written and illustrated over 80 children&#8217;s books. His works include <em>Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny<\/em> and <em>Duck to the Rescue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Harvey Kurtzman<\/b> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1924; died Mount Vernon, New York, February 21, 1993) founded <i>Mad<\/i> magazine in 1952. Idea: Children\u00a0could poll parents and teachers as to their attitudes toward <i>Mad<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas Clayton Wolfe<\/b> (born Asheville, North Carolina, 1900; died Baltimore, Maryland, September 15, 1938) was an author. One of his most well known works is <i>You Can\u2019t Go Home Again.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Savage Carlson (born Kernstown, Virginia, 1906; died Middletown, Rhode Island, September 23, 1997) wrote at least eighteen books for children. She received a 1959 Newbery Honor Award for The Family Under the Bridge. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Natalie Savage Carlson. Molly Cone (born Tacoma, Washington, 1918; died March 26, 2016) wrote over 45 books <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7641' 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":[2892,2891,2894,2890,2889,6371,2893],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-harvey-kurtzman","tag-james-alfred-wight-herriot","tag-john-himmelman","tag-molly-cone","tag-natalie-savage-carlson","tag-october-3-birthdays","tag-thomas-clayton-wolfe","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\/7641","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=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26721,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}