{"id":21254,"date":"2019-06-21T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=21254"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:18:54","slug":"fun-facts-from-honor-authors-and-illustrators-at-alaac19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/fun-facts-from-honor-authors-and-illustrators-at-alaac19\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun facts from Honor Authors and Illustrators at #alaac19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the beginning of the ALSC preconference, we were treated to speed introductions from the 2019 honor winning authors and illustrators. Here are some of the fun facts I learned:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many of the honor winners grew up in libraries and love libraries. #represent<\/li>\n<li>Grace Lin entered a writing contest as a kid in 1990. She got 4th place. The winner? Dav Pilkey!<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Thimmesh failed an Accelerated Reader test for a book she wrote.<\/li>\n<li>Sergio Ruzzier was considered a terrible reader as a kid.<\/li>\n<li>Pronounce David Lies last name as LEEZ and Oge Mora&#8217;s first name as OK.<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Gilbert Murdock could use help and weeding in her garden if anyone could use a summer job!<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Meyers spends two hours a day in a second grade classroom, &#8220;embedded with the troops.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Some of the winners hobbies include bicycling, cooking, painting and gardening.<\/li>\n<li>Grace Lin&#8217;s lucky number is nine. Which means she won&#8217;t have another award winner until 2029? (Noooooo)<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Gilbert Murdock loves food, which makes it funny that she wrote a book about a boy that does not eat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>THanks to ALSC staff and the Preconference Planning Committee for a fun program!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the beginning of the ALSC preconference, we were treated to speed introductions from the 2019 honor winning authors and illustrators. Here are some of the fun facts I learned: &nbsp; Many of the honor winners grew up in libraries and love libraries. #represent Grace Lin entered a writing contest as a kid in 1990. She got 4th place. The winner? Dav Pilkey! Catherine Thimmesh failed an Accelerated Reader test for a book she wrote. Sergio Ruzzier was considered a terrible reader as a kid. Pronounce David Lies last name as LEEZ and Oge Mora&#8217;s first name as OK. Catherine Gilbert Murdock could use help and weeding in her garden if anyone could use a summer job! Nancy Meyers spends two hours a day in a second grade classroom, &#8220;embedded with the troops.&#8221; Some of the winners hobbies include bicycling, cooking, painting and gardening. Grace Lin&#8217;s lucky number is nine&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"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":[1739,1174,151],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-21254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2019","category-blogger-emily-mroczek-bayci","category-live-blogging","tag-alsc-honor-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254","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\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}