{"id":783,"date":"2018-03-29T01:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=783"},"modified":"2018-03-29T01:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:36:19","slug":"astrid-lindgren-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2018\/03\/29\/astrid-lindgren-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrid Lindgren Award winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial;font-size: medium\">American author Jacqueline Woodson is the winner of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world\u2019s largest children\u2019s book award, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish kronor (more than $600,000 at present exchange rates). The award was announced live from Sweden on March 27, and was to be broadcast simultaneously at the Bologna Children\u2019s Book Fair. Woodson\u2019s 2014 memoir-in-verse, <em>Brown Girl Dreaming<\/em>, received the National Book Award.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American author Jacqueline Woodson is the winner of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world\u2019s largest children\u2019s book award, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish kronor (more than $600,000 at present exchange rates). The award was announced live from Sweden on March 27, and was to be broadcast simultaneously at the Bologna Children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-promotion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}