{"id":4715,"date":"2011-09-15T01:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2011-09-15T01:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:54:05","slug":"young-readers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/young-readers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flashlightpress.com\/sitebuilder\/images\/TheBusyLifeofErnestineBuckmeister9780979974694-219x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0979974690\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0979974690\">The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister<\/a><br \/>\nby Linda Ravin Lodding (Author) and Suzanne Beaky (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Ernestine is in over her head. Monday through Sunday, Ernestine\u2019s week is packed with after-school lessons\u2014tuba, knitting, sculpting, water ballet, yoga, yodeling, and karate. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Ernestine decides to take matters into her own hands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>On Mondays she sculpted with Clay Lumpkin.<br \/>\nOn Tuesdays she did water ballet with Miss Goldfisher.<br \/>\nOn Wednesdays she knitted with Mrs. Pearl Stitchem.<br \/>\nOn Thursdays she took tuba lessons with Mr. Oompah.<br \/>\nOn Fridays she yodeled with Little Old Lady Hoo.<br \/>\nOn Saturdays she studied karate with Grand Master HiYa!<br \/>\nAnd on Sundays she practiced yoga with Guru Prakash Pretzel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BONUS! See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BustjCHbkDw&amp;\">video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BustjCHbkDw&amp;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**Linda is one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/workshops\/?p=w.students\">former students<\/a>!**<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5160WYjnpxL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385739931\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0385739931\">Alice-Miranda at School<\/a><br \/>\nby Jacqueline Harvey (Author)<br \/>\n272 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones can&#8217;t wait to start boarding school. When she arrives at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies, the adventure begins . . . only not quite as Alice-Miranda expects. The minute she sets foot on the school&#8217;s manicured grounds, she senses that something is wrong: Miss Grimm, the headmistress, is nowhere to be seen, the gardens have no flowers, and a mysterious stranger seems to be hiding out on the premises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones waved goodbye to her parents at the gate.<br \/>\n&#8220;Goodbye, Mummy. Please be brave.&#8221; her mother sobbed loudly in return. &#8220;Enjoy your golf, Daddy. I&#8217;ll see you at the end of term.&#8221; Her father sniffed into his handkerchief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2011 Carnival Of Children&#8217;s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidlitcarnival.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/carnival_logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our September 2011 host is <a href=\"http:\/\/texaslibrarian.com\/\">Texas Librarian<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcarnival.com\/bc\/submit_209.html\">send in a link to YOUR post<\/a> by September 26th.<\/li>\n<li>The carnival will go live on September 28th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tired of blog scrapers stealing your online writings? Help Google <a href=\"http:\/\/mbist.ro\/pLndaG\">fight digital pirates<\/a> (via @galleycat)<\/p>\n<p>Berenstain Bears helping revive an endangered American Indian language in a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/oApEX0\">new TV animated series<\/a> (via @educationweek)<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --> My NEW book is here!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ch.read.write.sports\">Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8<\/a><br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister by Linda Ravin Lodding (Author) and Suzanne Beaky (Illustrator) Booktalk: Ernestine is in over her head. Monday through Sunday, Ernestine\u2019s week is packed with after-school lessons\u2014tuba, knitting, sculpting, water ballet, yoga, yodeling, and karate. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Ernestine decides to take matters into her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/young-readers-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young Readers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-carnival-of-childrens-literature","category-literacy","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}