{"id":5698,"date":"2018-06-08T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:18:35","slug":"adrift-at-sea-wins-the-golden-oak-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-wins-the-golden-oak-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift At Sea wins the Golden Oak Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marshatuan.jpg\">I<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5701 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marshatuan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marshatuan.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marshatuan-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marshatuan-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such a thrill that Adrift At Sea has won the Golden Oak Award. The nominated books are read and judged by adult literacy learners, and for me this is so very special. I am dyslexic and didn&#8217;t learn to read until I was nine years old. I have an inkling of the challenges adult learners confront and am in awe of their courage. All of the shortlisted books were fantastic. Not in a million years did Tuan and I expect to win. We had actually placed our bets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Fight-Learn-Struggle-Go-School\/dp\/1554517974\">Fight to Learn: The Struggle to go to School<\/a>\u00a0as the winner. I had been taking pics and tweeting them throughout the ceremony and was all set to take a pic of the winner, but then we were called up! So I don&#8217;t have a pic of Tuan and I receiving the award. Maybe someone will send me one? The pic above was taken in mid-May when we spoke at Downsview Library to Golden Oak participants.<\/p>\n<p>The pic below is Tuan and I with Marlene Shuan, who passionately presented our book to the audience. See the bottom pic of Marlene in action. All of the shortlisted books were presented by adult literacy learners &#8212; such bravery to get up there in front of your peers and present like that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene-1024x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene-1024x890.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene-1200x1043.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/tuanmarlene.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marlene.jpg 1715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Such a thrill that Adrift At Sea has won the Golden Oak Award. The nominated books are read and judged by adult literacy learners, and for me this is so very special. I am dyslexic and didn&#8217;t learn to read until I was nine years old. I have an inkling of the challenges adult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/adrift-at-sea-wins-the-golden-oak-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adrift At Sea wins the Golden Oak Award!&#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":[262],"tags":[360,431],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-adrift-at-sea","tag-golden-oak-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}