{"id":5160,"date":"2012-01-25T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2012-01-25T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T07:22:36","slug":"great-books-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/great-books-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred<\/a>
\nby\u00a0Samantha R. Vamos (Author) and \u00a0Rafael Lopez (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> A bilingual story of how the farm maiden and all the farm animals worked together to make the rice pudding that they serve at the fiesta (with a “house that Jack built” pattern).<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong>
\nThis is the goat
\nthat churned the cream
\nto make the MANTEQUILLA
\nthat went into the CAZUELA that the farm maiden stirred.<\/p>\n

A Pura Belpr\u00e9 2012 Illustrator Honor Book<\/a><\/em>
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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Soldier Bear<\/a>
\nby Bibi Dumon Tak (Author), Laura Watkinson (Translator) and Phiip Hopman (Illustrator)
\n144 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> A group of Polish solders stationed in Iran during World War II trade a pen knife and some canned beef for an orphaned bear cub, and Voytek, as they name the bear, travels with them from Iran to Italy and then on to Scotland. See how they train a bear to help them in the war. (Photographs of the real Voytek are in the back of the book.)<\/p>\n

Snippet:\u00a0<\/strong>The air rippled with heat. At that time of day, the army camp was like a ghost town. If you ventured out into the sun, it felt like you were about to burst into flames.<\/p>\n

But even so, one creature still came out into the blazing heat, bumbling along the path between the parked trucks and stopping to sniff at every vehicle.<\/p>\n

*This book (shared in October) won the Batchelder Award<\/a> (given to books translated into English).<\/em>
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The (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winners and honor books for the (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award<\/a> for beginning readers were announced this week.<\/p>\n

2012 Medal winner<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tales for Very Picky Eaters<\/a>
\nby Josh Schneider (Author, Illustrator)
\nA father tells his son outrageous stories to try and get him to eat. Chapter book<\/em><\/p>\n

2012 Honor Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I Broke My Trunk! <\/a>
\nby Mo Willems (Author, Illustrator)
\nUh-oh! Elephant broke his trunk, and now he has a CRAZY story to tell Piggie. Easy reader<\/em><\/p>\n

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I Want My Hat Back<\/a>
\nby Jon Klassen (Author, Illustrator)
\nBear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back, so he asks everyone he sees about it. Picture book<\/em><\/p>\n

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See Me Run<\/a>
\nby Paul Meisel (Author, Illustrator)
\nDogs play in the park and find buried bones in this easy-to-read picture book<\/em>.
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Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

J.R.R. Tolkien & George Orwell Removed From Public Domain<\/a> (via GalleyCat)<\/p>\n

Take Your Child to the Library Day<\/a> launches Feb 4th (via @sljournal)
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\"Site<\/a> My NEW chapter book is Save the Best for Last, Abby<\/a> (All-Star Cheerleaders)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by\u00a0Samantha R. Vamos (Author) and \u00a0Rafael Lopez (Illustrator) Booktalk: A bilingual story of how the farm maiden and all the farm animals worked together to make the rice pudding that they serve at the fiesta (with a “house that Jack built” pattern). Snippet: … Continue reading Great Books<\/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":[3,6,9,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-news","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","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=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}