{"id":4625,"date":"2016-12-10T21:27:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2016-12-10T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:27:36","slug":"a-slew-of-awesome-reviews-for-adrift-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-slew-of-awesome-reviews-for-adrift-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"A slew of awesome reviews for Adrift at Sea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/adr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/adr1.jpg 901w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/adr1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/adr1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>From Laura Fabiani and Sandra Olshaski on their blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryofcleanreads.com\/2016\/10\/adrift-at-sea-vietnamese-boys-story-of.html\"><i>Library of Clean Reads<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Laura says \u201cI highly recommend this book as a teaching tool and feel that it should be in every library. It\u2019s books like this that will make history come alive for our next generation of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Sandra says \u201cThe soft-focus artwork done by Brian Deines that illustrates each page is amazing\u2026.The author has produced a very readable book that both parents and children should read together. I highly recommend this beautiful book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.literacyworldwide.org\/blog\/literacy-daily\/2016\/10\/31\/war-and-its-aftermath\">Literacy Daily<\/a>:<\/i>\u00a0\u201cThe evocative text and powerful illustrations, painted with oils, enable readers to feel as though they, too, are refugees adrift at sea during this risky journey to freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salsfictionaddiction.blogspot.ca\/2016\/11\/adrift-at-sea-vietnamese-boys-story-of.html\"><i>Sal\u2019s Fiction Addiction<\/i><\/a> says \u201c<span lang=\"EN-CA\">The authors include personal photographs of Tuan\u2019s family, before their escape and\u00a0following their\u00a0settling in Canada,\u00a0to help readers understand\u00a0this historical moment in time\u2026.Brian Deines (as he always does) has created truly beautiful artwork using oils on canvas to bring Tuan\u2019s story to this book\u2019s readers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sherry Early&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semicolonblog.com\/?p=26005\">Semicolon<\/a> says: This nonfiction picture book opens with a bang.\u00a0The illustrations in this book, full color paintings, are absolutely stunning\u2026.Brian Deines, has outdone himself in two-page spreads that bring this refugee story to life\u2026.[A] good introduction to the subject of the Vietnamese boat people\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Laura Fabiani and Sandra Olshaski on their blog Library of Clean Reads: Laura says \u201cI highly recommend this book as a teaching tool and feel that it should be in every library. It\u2019s books like this that will make history come alive for our next generation of children.\u201d And Sandra says \u201cThe soft-focus artwork &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-slew-of-awesome-reviews-for-adrift-at-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A slew of awesome reviews for Adrift at Sea!&#8221;<\/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":[168,262],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-news-stories","tag-adrift-at-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","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=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}