{"id":2898,"date":"2006-08-03T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:38","slug":"helping-kids-face-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"Helping kids face Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YA and children&#8217;s author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenreads.com\/authors\/au-howe-james.asp\" target=_blank>James Howe<\/a> feels that kids need support in facing their fears. In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/entertainment\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/entertainment\/1154433412325670.xml&#038;coll=2\" target=_blank>interview<\/a>, Howe states that although his books at times go to a dark place, it&#8217;s important to lead a reader &#8220;back to the light.&#8221; Howe&#8217;s popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingthechild.org\/ajhowe.html\" target=_blank>Bunnicula<\/a> series, about a vampire &#8230;rabbit have been a favorite for younger readers for a long time. Howe&#8217;s work for older readers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenslit.com\/f_howe.html\" target=_blank>The Misfits<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/teach\/magazine\/features.jsp?p=0&amp;is=38\" target=_blank>Totally Joe<\/a>, follow the same pattern: putting characters in situations that identify fears that we all face, including rejection, loneliness and being unloved, and helping the character and the reader find their way through.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlakelibrary.org\/kidslit\/\" target=_blank>Kid&#8217;s Lit<\/a> @ the Greenlake Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YA and children&#8217;s author James Howe feels that kids need support in facing their fears. In a recent interview, Howe states that although his&#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":[10],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","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=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}