{"id":84,"date":"2012-08-08T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:16:53","slug":"new-us-board-on-books-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2012\/08\/08\/new-us-board-on-books-title\/","title":{"rendered":"New US Board on Books title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children&#8217;s Books<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following <em>Children&#8217;s Books from Other Countries<\/em> (1998), <em>The World Through Children&#8217;s Books<\/em> (2002), and <em>Crossing Boundaries<\/em> (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children&#8217;s literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>978-0-8108-8106-8 \u2022 Paperback<\/strong><br \/>\nAugust 2011 \u2022 <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>$55.00<\/strong><\/span> \u2022 (\u00a334.95)<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"52\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" width=\"52\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>978-0-8108-8107-5 \u2022 eBook<\/strong><br \/>\nAugust 2011 \u2022 <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>$54.99<\/strong><\/span> \u2022 (\u00a334.95)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children&#8217;s Books This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children&#8217;s Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children&#8217;s Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}