{"id":7019,"date":"2020-06-16T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:44:26","slug":"two-awards-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/two-awards-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Two awards in one week!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7016\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/awards-and-honours\/for_seals_yellow_cedar_winner_rgb\/\" class=\"wp-image-7016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FOR_Seals_Yellow_Cedar_Winner_RGB.png 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redcedar.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7014\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redcedar.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/awards-and-honours\/redcedar\/\" class=\"wp-image-7014\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/winneryellowcedar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/winneryellowcedar.png 800w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/winneryellowcedar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/winneryellowcedar-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite awards are readers&#8217; choice awards because it means actual kids are enjoying one&#8217;s books. This was a humbling week when Too Young to Escape won TWO of these awards, voted by the kids themselves. The Red Cedar is an BC information book award. Here&#8217;s a video about my wonderful fellow nominees&#8217; books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Red Cedar Award  Information  2020\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KT2IydeXYeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yellow Cedar Award is part of the Ontario Library Association&#8217;s hugely popular Forest of Reading program. This is the first year for the Yellow Cedar and it combines two previous awards: the Silver Birch for non-fiction and the Red Maple for non-fiction.  Watch the award ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/curio.ca\/en\/video\/the-forest-of-reading-2020-yellow-cedar-award-for-nonfiction-in-english-24984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite awards are readers&#8217; choice awards because it means actual kids are enjoying one&#8217;s books. This was a humbling week when Too Young to Escape won TWO of these awards, voted by the kids themselves. The Red Cedar is an BC information book award. Here&#8217;s a video about my wonderful fellow nominees&#8217; books. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/two-awards-in-one-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two awards in one week!&#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":[191,256,467,515,448,64,65,517,516],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-award","tag-forest-of-reading","tag-pajama-press","tag-red-cedar","tag-too-young-to-escape","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war","tag-win","tag-yellow-cedar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7021,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}