{"id":5051,"date":"2011-12-30T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2011-12-30T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:01:38","slug":"friday-reads-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/friday-reads-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/covers\/978-1-935279-85-3.d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/book.asp?sku=576\">It&#8217;s Almost Time<\/a><br \/>\nby Debbie Bernstein (Author) and Sarah Chalek (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Two friends make their way through a clock-filled house, counting down, ready for all the different clock sounds to mark the hour. Cover your ears; it&#8217;s going to be noisy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Tick-tick-tock.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s almost time.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The gears are winding,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>getting ready to chime.<\/em><br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/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\/418AK-JY2bL._AA160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0753466163\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0753466163\">Planet Earth: What Planet Are You On?<\/a> (Basher Science)<br \/>\nby Dan Gilpin (Author), Simon Basher (Author, Illustrator)<br \/>\n128 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A handy intro to earth science, with a new concept after each page turn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <em>It&#8217;s a wide, wild world out there. Planet Earth is filled to the bursting point with Rivers, Mountain Ranges, Weather systems, Climate zones, Ocean Currents, Biomes, and all kinds of what-have-yous. There&#8217;s so much to understand about our planet that the mind boggles.<\/em><br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEM Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/stemfriday.tiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">This week&#8217;s STEM Friday Round-up is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redphoenixbooks.com\">Red Phoenix Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/poetry%20friday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"79\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">This week&#8217;s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/julielarios.blogspot.com\/\">The Drift Record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction Monday on January 2, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Nonfiction Monday is coming!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/hosts\/\">Nonfiction Monday Round-up<\/a> on January 2, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">is at <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictiondetectives.blogspot.com\/\">The Nonfiction Detectives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.pictureshunt.com\/pics\/n\/new_years_fireworks-3659.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Happy New Year! See you in 2012!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61ppOEXRm%2BL._AA160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- 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 picture book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/books\/?p=pb.road.work.ahead\">Road Work Ahead<\/a> (Viking)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Book of the Day It&#8217;s Almost Time by Debbie Bernstein (Author) and Sarah Chalek (Illustrator) Booktalk: Two friends make their way through a clock-filled house, counting down, ready for all the different clock sounds to mark the hour. Cover your ears; it&#8217;s going to be noisy! Snippet: Tick-tick-tock. It&#8217;s almost time. The gears are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/friday-reads-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Reads<\/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":[6,20,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-poetry-friday","category-stem-friday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","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=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}