{"id":6443,"date":"2014-12-10T01:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2014-12-10T01:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T07:29:11","slug":"boris-and-stella-and-the-perfect-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/boris-and-stella-and-the-perfect-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61jBUP0jzfL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585368598\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1585368598&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=UFQURCQYWJ5GQ7P4\">Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift<\/a><br \/>\nby Dara Goldman (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> O&#8217;Henry&#8217;s &#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; retold for kids as a Christmas and Hanukkah story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nHanukkah was almost here and Stella wanted to give Boris something special. She shook her savings bank upside down. Only a few coins fell out. How could she give Boris something special if she only had a few coins?<\/p>\n<p>She looked around her little apartment. All she had of value was a pine tree from her family&#8217;s farm in Italy. Her papa had given it to her when it was a seedling. It reminded Stella of her home and family during Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, Stella had an idea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift - Book Trailer\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTvRjhWHswo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VTvRjhWHswo\" target=\"_blank\">book trailer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift by Dara Goldman (Author, Illustrator) Booktalk: O&#8217;Henry&#8217;s &#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; retold for kids as a Christmas and Hanukkah story&#8230; Snippet: Hanukkah was almost here and Stella wanted to give Boris something special. She shook her savings bank upside down. Only a few coins fell out. How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/boris-and-stella-and-the-perfect-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boris and Stella and the Perfect Gift<\/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":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","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\/6443","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=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}