{"id":13844,"date":"2016-08-16T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:22:29","slug":"five-reasons-need-reading-board-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/five-reasons-need-reading-board-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Why We All Need to be Reading More Board Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

While ordering some new board books to beef up our well-loved collection, I made a discovery. \u00a0These books pack a powerful punch of feel-good that we could all use. Here\u2019s why you and I need to keep several nearby:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Peace.<\/b> More of this, please. Try Haiku Baby<\/em> by Betsy Snyder. Feel the stress melt away. A friend of mine, a Ph.D. in Psychology, keeps this one in her purse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    1. Delicious things to eat, and guilt is optional! <\/b>Take a look at Food Trucks!<\/em> by Jeffrey Burton. Whether you run to the nearest truck or not is up to you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        \n
      1. Love<\/b>. Cradle Me<\/em> by Debbie Slier. Who wouldn\u2019t want to be snuggled and treasured? I\u2019m not hating on self-help books, but I think they could take a hint from board books and get to the point in fewer words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          \n
        1. Board books involve very little time commitment<\/b>. You\u2019ll be done and on to your next task in just a few minutes, \u00a0and feeling a little less burdened.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            \n
          1. Board books are easy on the eyes<\/b>. The colors are bright and the print is usually large. Some of us (okay, I do) need this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            I predict that once we are tired of coloring books, someone wise, famous or both will usher in board books as the new trend for the grown up crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            While ordering some new board books to beef up our well-loved collection, I made a discovery. \u00a0These books pack a powerful punch of feel-good that we could all use. Here\u2019s why you and I need to keep several nearby:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1048,210,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-ericka-chilcoat","category-books-2","category-childrens-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}