{"id":371,"date":"2019-04-19T08:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=371"},"modified":"2019-04-18T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:13:58","slug":"in-focus-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/in-focus-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/infocusforests_fc-595x595.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8702\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2V8SZBE\">In Focus: Forests<\/a><br \/>\nby Libby Walden (Author) and 10 Illustrators<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Ten illustrators delve into the woodlands to explore the creatures, culture, and conservation of our forested areas. Each spread of this over-sized book opens in the middle with a gatefold on both the left and the right giving each topic 6 pages of content. See all four parts of the rain forest, wind your way through the fir trees, and dive to the depths of the kelp forest to uncover the fascinating facts of these unique ecosystems. <\/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\/2019\/04\/infocusforests_in-595x299.jpg?resize=525%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8703\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/infocusforests_in2-595x299.jpg?resize=525%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8704\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<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;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Focus: Forests by Libby Walden (Author) and 10 Illustrators Booktalk: Ten illustrators delve into the woodlands to explore the creatures, culture, and conservation of our forested areas. Each spread of this over-sized book opens in the middle with a gatefold on both the left and the right giving each topic 6 pages of content. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/in-focus-forests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Focus: Forests&#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-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-5Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1637,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/solstice-around-the-world-on-the-longest-shortest-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":371,"position":0},"title":"Solstice: Around the World on the Longest, Shortest Day","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"June 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Solstice: Around the World on the Longest, Shortest Day by Jen Breach (Author) and 14 Global Artists @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: Explore the daily lives of children around the world through through the lens of a single, special day in June, the longest day of the year in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;STEM Friday Round-up&quot;","block_context":{"text":"STEM Friday Round-up","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/category\/stem-friday-round-up\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/solstice14fc-960x1018.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/solstice14fc-960x1018.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/solstice14fc-960x1018.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1463,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/listen-to-the-language-of-the-trees\/","url_meta":{"origin":371,"position":1},"title":"Listen to the Language of the Trees","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Listen to the Language of the Trees: A story of how forests communicate underground by Tera Kelley (Author) and Marie Hermansson (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: A new seedling has sprouted. 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