{"id":1504,"date":"2023-03-27T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2023-03-26T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T22:33:32","slug":"i-begin-with-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/i-begin-with-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"I Begin with Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ibeginwithspring-960x1280.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau<\/em><br \/>\nby Julie Dunlap (Author) and Megan Elizabeth Baratta (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FOUg6P\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9780884489085\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Formatted like a nature notebook, this exploration of seasonal changes in Thoreau\u2019s day is also a visual story of his life and times with an introduction to climate change in the back matter showing the use of his 150-year-old observations in our time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ibeginwithspring2-960x641.jpg?resize=525%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau by Julie Dunlap (Author) and Megan Elizabeth Baratta (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Formatted like a nature notebook, this exploration of seasonal changes in Thoreau\u2019s day is also a visual story of his life and times with an introduction to climate change &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/i-begin-with-spring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Begin with Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-og","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1333,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/our-seasons-the-world-in-winter-spring-summer-and-autumn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1504,"position":0},"title":"Our Seasons: The World in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn","author":"@roberta3","date":"May 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As spring moves to summer, it is a good time to explore the unique board book, Our Seasons: The World in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn by Sue Lowell Gallion and illustrated by Lisk Feng. \u00a0 Our Seasons is a sculpture as well as a book. 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