{"id":2545,"date":"2007-04-20T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:26","slug":"more-npr-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"More NPR Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you probably know how much I adore the NPR program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=11\">News and Notes<\/a>. Yesterday I was given yet another reason to enjoy the show&#8211;an interesting interview and lovely reading (apropos of National Poetry Month!) by Ruth Forman from her new illustrated children&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ruthforman\">Young Cornrows Callin out the Moon<\/a>. Forman is an instructor at our own local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vona-voices.org\/\">Vona Voices<\/a> program, an alum of UC Berkeley (go Bears!), and a former student of June Jordan. To listen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=9645327\">click here<\/a>. <br \/>I keep hearing on NPR sponsorship breaks about a book worth lusting after&#8211;Seattle librarian, Book Lust author, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/laf\/\">action figure<\/a> model <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancypearl.com\/\">Nancy Pearl<\/a> has a new book about recommended reading for kids and teens called <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.npr.org\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&#038;storeId=10051&#038;productId=23020&#038;langId=-1\">Book Crush<\/a>. Says the NPR Shop website: Divided into three sections &#8212; Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers, and Young Adult &#8212; Book Crush makes wonderful reading connections by theme, setting, voice, and ideas.&#8221; I hope to find a copy&#8211;where else?&#8211;in my local library. I&#8217;ll be very interested to see her recommendations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you probably know how much I adore the NPR program News and Notes. Yesterday I was given yet another reason to enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,47,15,10],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}