{"id":1938,"date":"2008-07-06T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:22","slug":"this-weekend-in-childrens-lit-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend In Children&#8217;s Lit Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, all kinds of children&#8217;s lit greatness this weekend on NPR &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=92267961\" target= _blank>Lois Lowery<\/a> on the Willoughby&#8217;s, a new award named for Roald Dahl honoring  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=92267966&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1038\" target= _blank>&#8220;funny&#8221; in kidlit<\/a>, and a fun piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91564083\" target= _blank>superheroes.<\/a> The SF Chronicle also adds to the fun with a review of a great piece of nonfiction &#8212; dealing with fiction: <i>A Reader&#8217;s History From Aesop to Harry Potter<\/i>, by Seth Lerer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/04\/RVC610B9SO.DTL&#038;feed=rss.books\" target= _blank>This book<\/a> looks like a must-have for those who are interested in the history of children&#8217;s literature, as it also deals with the adult perception of the child, and how that&#8217;s changed through the years, from the days when <i>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/i> was thought to be especially entertaining for children, to the nasty hidden messages in fairy tales (for girls, anyway) and beyond. Some great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, all kinds of children&#8217;s lit greatness this weekend on NPR &#8212; Lois Lowery on the Willoughby&#8217;s, a new award named for Roald Dahl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}