{"id":6730,"date":"2026-02-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:11:08","slug":"kidsbook_history_0220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2026\/02\/20\/kidsbook_history_0220\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb\u00adru\u00adary 20th: Today in the his\u00adto\u00adry of chil\u00addren\u2019s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0100__Rosemary-Harris-The-Moon-in-the-Cloud.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-6896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0100__Rosemary-Harris-The-Moon-in-the-Cloud.jpg 375w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0100__Rosemary-Harris-The-Moon-in-the-Cloud-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0100__Rosemary-Harris-The-Moon-in-the-Cloud-9x12.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"-1923\u5e742\u670820\u65e5--\u51fa\u751f-\u7f57\u65af\u739b\u4e3d\u54c8\u91cc\u65af-rosemary-harris\">\ud83c\udf82&nbsp;<strong>February 20, 1923 \u2013 Birth:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rosemary Harris<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>British renowned chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture author<strong>Rose\u00admary Har\u00adris<\/strong>Born (1923\u20132019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Impor\u00adtant works and achieve\u00adments:<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Carnegie Medal:<\/strong>&nbsp;With the<strong>The Moon in the Clouds<\/strong>-<em>The Moon in the Cloud<\/em>(Pub\u00adlished in 1968) won awards&nbsp;<strong>1968 Carnegie Medal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>con\u00adtent:<\/strong>&nbsp;This is a wit\u00adty and humor\u00adous fan\u00adta\u00adsy nov\u00adel that retells the sto\u00adry of Noah\u2019s Ark from a fresh per\u00adspec\u00adtive. The pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist is not Noah, but Ruben, a young musi\u00adcian who col\u00adlects ani\u00admals for him. Har\u00adris skill\u00adful\u00adly blends mythol\u00ado\u00adgy, his\u00adto\u00adry, and com\u00ade\u00addy, show\u00adcas\u00ading both the bril\u00adliance and weak\u00adness\u00ades of human\u00adi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>|&nbsp;<strong>born<\/strong>&nbsp;Rose\u00admary Har\u00adris |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosemary_Harris_(writer)\">Rose\u00admary Har\u00adris (Wikipedia)<\/a>&nbsp;|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine-748x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-6897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0101__Jacqueline-Rivire-Bcassine.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"\ufe0f-1920\u5e742\u670820\u65e5--\u901d\u4e16-\u6770\u594e\u7433\u91cc\u7ef4\u57c3\u5c14-jacqueline-rivi\u00e8re\">\u26b0\ufe0f&nbsp;<strong>February 20, 1920 \u2013 Died:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jacqueline Rivi\u00e8re<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>French writer and edi\u00adtor<strong>Jacque\u00adline Riv\u00adi\u00e8re<\/strong>He died in 1851\u20131920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Impor\u00adtant works and con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtions:<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bec\u00adca\u00adsi\u00adna<\/strong>\uff08<em>B\u00e9cas\u00adsine<\/em>She is the embod\u00adi\u00adment of this clas\u00adsic French car\u00adtoon char\u00adac\u00adter.<strong>Text Author<\/strong>(Illus\u00adtra\u00adtion by Joseph Pin\u00adchon)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>His\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bec\u00adca\u00adsi\u00adna, born in 1905, is a sim\u00adple, even some\u00adwhat clum\u00adsy, maid who wears a tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal Bre\u00adton white head\u00address. She is a fig\u00adure in the his\u00adto\u00adry of comics.<strong>The first female pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist<\/strong>It even pre\u00addates \u201cThe Adven\u00adtures of Tintin\u201d. Although the ear\u00adly com\u00adic book for\u00admat was illus\u00adtra\u00adtions with text (with\u00adout speech bub\u00adbles), it had a pro\u00adfound influ\u00adence on the devel\u00adop\u00adment of Euro\u00adpean comics and was includ\u00aded in \u201c1001 Chil\u00addren\u2019s Books\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>|&nbsp;<strong>Death<\/strong>&nbsp;Jacque\u00adline Riv\u00adi\u00e8re |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacqueline_Rivi%C3%A8re\">Jacque\u00adline Riv\u00adi\u00e8re (French Wikipedia)<\/a>&nbsp;|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World-662x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-6898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ver\u00adsion 1.0.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"\ufe0f-1980\u5e742\u670820\u65e5--\u901d\u4e16-\u51ef\u745f\u7433\u5e0c\u5f6d-katherine-shippen\">\u26b0\ufe0f&nbsp;<strong>February 20, 1980 \u2013 Died:<\/strong>&nbsp;Katherine Shippen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amer\u00adi\u00adcan writ\u00aders<strong>Cather\u00adine Ship\u00adpen<\/strong>She died in 1892\u20131980. She is best known for writ\u00ading excel\u00adlent non-fic\u00adtion (his\u00adto\u00adry, sci\u00adence) books for young peo\u00adple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Impor\u00adtant works and achieve\u00adments:<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>New\u00adbery Hon\u00ador:<\/strong>&nbsp;With the<strong>The New\u00adly Dis\u00adcov\u00adered World<\/strong>-<em>New Found World<\/em>(Pub\u00adlished in 1945) won awards&nbsp;<strong>New\u00adbery Sil\u00adver Medal, 1946<\/strong>This is a book about the his\u00adto\u00adry of South Amer\u00adi\u00adca, from the Inca civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion to the polit\u00adi\u00adcal land\u00adscape dur\u00ading World War II.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>oth\u00ader:<\/strong>&nbsp;Her oth\u00ader pop\u00adu\u00adlar sci\u00adence work, *Humans, Micro\u00adscopes, and Organ\u00adisms*<em>Men, Micro\u00adscopes, and Liv\u00ading Things<\/em>He also won the New\u00adbery Sil\u00adver Medal (1956).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>|&nbsp;<strong>Death<\/strong>&nbsp;| Kather\u00adine Ship\u00adpen |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Shippen\">Kather\u00adine Ship\u00adpen (Wikipedia)<\/a>&nbsp;|<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf82&nbsp;1923\u5e742\u670820\u65e5 \u2014 \u51fa\u751f\uff1a&nbsp;\u7f57\u65af\u739b\u4e3d\u00b7\u54c8\u91cc\u65af (Rosemary Harris) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[406,10],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-498","tag-406","tag-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0102__Katherine-Shippen-New-Found-World.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}