{"id":144550,"date":"2022-05-06T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144550"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:52:16","slug":"amy-recommends-watercress-by-andrea-wang-illus-by-jason-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144550","title":{"rendered":"Amy Recommends: Watercress by Andrea Wang, Illus. by Jason Chin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4705518?locg=1\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-144551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4705518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4705518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4705518-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>Watercress<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Andrea Wang, Illus. by Jason Chin<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This beautifully illustrated picture book packs a punch. Watercress can be read to younger kids but is rich enough in story to discuss with older kids, teens and adults alike. Andrea Wang tells a story about pride, family, poverty and immigration in just a few words. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Jason Chin, a Newbery Honor for children\u2019s literature and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apalaweb.org\/awards\/literature-awards\/\">Asian\/Pacific American Literature Award<\/a> winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s also a New York Times bestseller and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book, so I\u2019m not alone in suggesting this one! Don\u2019t miss this quiet but powerful book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/results?bookbag=5161656;page=0;locg=11;depth=0\">List of more Caldecott books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watercress\u00a0by Andrea Wang, Illus. by Jason Chin This beautifully illustrated picture book packs a punch. Watercress can be read to younger kids but is rich enough in story to discuss with older kids, teens and adults alike. Andrea Wang tells a story about pride, family, poverty and immigration in just a few words. Winner of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":144551,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amy-recommends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4705518.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BBs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144552,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144550\/revisions\/144552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}