{"id":649,"date":"2010-05-08T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=649"},"modified":"2010-12-10T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T20:47:16","slug":"grace-lin-visits-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/grace-lin-visits-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Lin visits today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not too late &#8211; come to the library today at 1:00 (for children ages 4 and up and their adults) or 2:00 (for children in grades 1 to 5 and their adults) and meet famed author and illustrator <a title=\"Grace Lin's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gracelin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Lin<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Grace Lin received a 2010 Newbery Honor for her book <em><a title=\"Concord Bookshop\" href=\"http:\/\/concord.indiebound.com\/book\/9780316114271\" target=\"_blank\">Where the Mountain Meets the Moon <\/a><\/em>and just won the Massachusetts Book Award for Children&#8217;s and Young Adult literature for the same book.\u00a0 She has also written and illustrated many picturebooks, including <em><a title=\"Concord Bookshop\" href=\"http:\/\/concord.indiebound.com\/book\/9780881063363\" target=\"_blank\">The Ugly Vegetables<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely excited about her visit; <em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon <\/em>is my favorite book of the year &#8211; the best book I&#8217;ve read in many months &#8211; and the preschool storytime kids and I have been heartily enjoying her picturebooks for the last several weeks.\u00a0 We read <em>The Ugly Vegetables <\/em>together this past Thursday, and we all loved it!<\/p>\n<p>Please do join us for this special author and illustrator program.\u00a0 Drop-ins are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not too late &#8211; come to the library today at 1:00 (for children ages 4 and up and their adults) or 2:00 (for children in grades 1 to 5 and their adults) and meet famed author and illustrator Grace Lin! Grace Lin received a 2010 Newbery Honor for her book Where the Mountain Meets &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/grace-lin-visits-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grace Lin visits today!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}