{"id":4064,"date":"2016-10-22T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2016-10-22T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:04:19","slug":"adrift-at-sea-a-bunch-of-awesome-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-a-bunch-of-awesome-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift at Sea — a bunch of awesome reviews!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdriftAtSea_website\"\u201cThe text is terse and unembellished, leaving the images to capture the emotions through color and perspective\u2014and they do so with compelling immediacy.\u201d\u2014Booklist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] remarkable tale of perseverance that involved attacks from soldiers, a broken boat at sea, and a trip that was intended to last four days but went horribly awry\u2026.This is a solid informational resource that can be used for introducing a refugee\u2019s experience.\u201d\u2014School Library Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“As she did in The Last Airlift <\/em>and One Step at a Time<\/em>, Skrypuch uses one child\u2019s story to give moving insight into the experience of the many children who escaped war-ravaged Vietnam to start new lives\u2026.Deines\u2019s (Elephant Journey<\/em>) hazy oil paintings poignantly capture the family\u2019s physical ordeal and anguish during their perilous journey.”\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom the illustration of a lone boat adrift in a wash of dry heat that graces the cover of Adrift at Sea<\/em>, to the dark and engrossing images of Tuan\u2019s steps along the journey, Brian Deines\u2019 art is evocative and integrative, resplendent in complementary colours of orange and golds and blues and purples.\u201d\u2014CanLit for LittleCanadians<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026detailed authors\u2019 notes include history, photographs, and maps. The warm undertones in Deines\u2019 oil paintings evoke tropical Vietnam.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe text is terse and unembellished, leaving the images to capture the emotions through color and perspective\u2014and they do so with compelling immediacy.\u201d\u2014Booklist \u201c[A] remarkable tale of perseverance that involved attacks from soldiers, a broken boat at sea, and a trip that was intended to last four days but went horribly awry\u2026.This is a solid … Continue reading “Adrift at Sea — a bunch of awesome reviews!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,226,262,309],"tags":[360,328,64],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-goodreads-reviews","category-news-stories","category-picture-book","tag-adrift-at-sea","tag-boat-people","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}