{"id":667,"date":"2020-01-17T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=667"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:50:33","slug":"loony-little-the-ice-cap-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/loony-little-the-ice-cap-is-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"Loony Little: The Ice Cap Is Melting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/loonylittle_0-595x528.jpg?resize=525%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10494\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781623541170?aff=anasuen09\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.indiebound.org\/files\/indiebound\/images\/banners\/indiesRed2_161x41_10-26-15.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Support Independent Bookstores - Visit IndieBound.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RmCFcI\">Loony Little: The Ice Cap Is Melting<\/a><br \/>\nby Dianna Hutts Aston (Author) and Kelly Murphy (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with this climate-focused twist on the classic &#8220;Chicken Little&#8221; story.<\/p>\n<p>Loony Little and her friends set off to tell the Polar Bear Queen that the polar ice cap is melting. Sly Foxy Loxy attempts to lead the animals to his lair to eat them, but Loony Little saves the day, tricking the fox into being devoured by the Polar Bear Queen. <em>Includes information about climate change and the animal species in the book.<\/em><\/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\/2020\/01\/loony-little-spread-595x263.jpg?resize=525%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"232\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10495\" \/><\/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 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loony Little: The Ice Cap Is Melting by Dianna Hutts Aston (Author) and Kelly Murphy (Illustrator) Booktalk: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with this climate-focused twist on the classic &#8220;Chicken Little&#8221; story. Loony Little and her friends set off to tell the Polar Bear Queen that the polar ice cap is melting. Sly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/loony-little-the-ice-cap-is-melting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loony Little: The Ice Cap Is Melting&#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-667","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-aL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/sea-bear\/","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":0},"title":"Sea Bear","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"February 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival by Lindsay Moore (Author \/ Illustrator) Booktalk: A solitary polar bear travels across the sea ice in pursuit of food. 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