{"id":1856,"date":"2012-08-17T05:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:35:40","slug":"mo-willems-on-raising-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/mo-willems-on-raising-a-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Willems on Raising a Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Mo Willems. His books are unique, even when they are part of a series. When I went to my library and asked for books like the Elephant and Piggie easy readers, which are massive favorites in this house, the librarian couldn&#8217;t find any. Write faster, Mr. Willems, please!<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to get to hear him speak this past spring. Not only is he a fantastic writer, but he&#8217;s a great speaker and a funny guy, who managed to teach an entire auditorium of people how to animate a pigeon using a strip of paper and a pencil. <\/p>\n<p>And so, as school starts and reading becomes a requirement, try to keep in mind that raising a reader means creating joy about reading, and playing with words, and check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/parents\/resources\/article\/mo-willems-secrets-for-raising-a-reader\/?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+Children%27s+Bookshelf&#038;utm_campaign=f4d8817f2f-UA-15906914-1&#038;utm_medium=email\">tips for raising a reader<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Mo Willems. His books are unique, even when they are part of a series. When I went to my library and asked for books like the Elephant and Piggie easy readers, which are massive favorites in this house, the librarian couldn&#8217;t find any. Write faster, Mr. Willems, please! I was fortunate enough to<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/mo-willems-on-raising-a-reader\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,9,6,1187,130,195],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrens-books","tag-librarians","tag-libraries","tag-mo-willems","tag-reading","tag-reading-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}