{"id":4767,"date":"2011-10-11T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2011-10-11T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:22:06","slug":"unexpected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/unexpected-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/510j85S5qaL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0763645702\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0763645702\">Ladder to the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Maya Soetoro-Ng (Author) and Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A little girl climbs a golden ladder to visit her late Gramdmother on the moon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>One cool new evening,<\/p>\n<p>Suhaila asked her mama,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was Grandma Annie like?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was like the moon,&#8221; her mother replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Full, soft, and curious.<\/p>\n<p>Your grandma would wrap her arms<\/p>\n<p>around the whole world if she could.&#8221;<\/em><\/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\/51B7bvMiZfL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1442417374\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1442417374\">The Vampire Dare!<\/a> (Daphne&#8217;s Diary of Daily Disasters)<\/p>\n<p>by Marissa Moss (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p>80 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Daphne decides it\u2019s kinda cool to be bitten by a vampire because you\u2019ll live forever\u2014and if you can\u2019t die, you can\u2019t get old and wrinkly. So when the teachers announce a costume day, Daphne wants to be the best vampire ever!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>There are three really hot things in my school these dys&#8211;Lamar Graham, the cutest boy in fourth grade, the horseradish the cafeteria serves with the hot dogs, and vampires. Any kind of vampire, but teenage or kid vampires are the best.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writng advice from agent Donald Maas: &#8220;What\u2019s one way your MC tackles the big problem? Find another character who can do the same thing, or the opposite. Add.&#8221; (via @donmaass)<\/p>\n<p>Nominate a book for the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xlmMK\">Cybils awards<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Preschool activity of the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/oQmPRl\">Make a Paper Pumpkin!<\/a> (via @preschoolers)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/01.edu-cdn.com\/files\/48901_49000\/48997\/file_48997.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=ch.zombie\">The Zombie Project<\/a> (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #128)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day Ladder to the Moon by Maya Soetoro-Ng (Author) and Yuyi Morales (Illustrator) Booktalk: A little girl climbs a golden ladder to visit her late Gramdmother on the moon&#8230; Snippet: One cool new evening, Suhaila asked her mama, &#8220;What was Grandma Annie like?&#8221; She was like the moon,&#8221; her mother replied. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/unexpected-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unexpected&#8230;<\/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":[3,6,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-booktalks","category-education","category-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","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=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}