{"id":2314,"date":"2011-04-28T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2011-05-14T22:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:25:27","slug":"here-comes-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/here-comes-the-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Bride!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hours away from the Royal Wedding<\/a>!\u00a0 Tomorrow, Prince William &<\/em> Catherine Middleton will be married at Westminster Abbey. Kids and adults alike have heard about this grand event for weeks; some estimates say as many as two billion people will watch all or part of the ceremony. Whether you are counting down the hours until television\/Internet coverage of the festivities begins, or you are one of those not at all interested in the extravagance of this particular brouhaha, this is an excellent opportunity to build a quick and easy topical display at your library.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Many children\u2019s books are available which would be appropriate for a display of this type. Consider displaying a variety of fiction and informational books about weddings, with information about their customs, traditions, & significance such as Weddings<\/span> by Ann Morris or Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl<\/span> by Barbara Park.<\/p>\n

Or consider books about Kings and Queens, Princes and Princesses — real and imaginary — such as a biography of Prince William or Kate Middleton, a book about King Arthur, or one of the many, many books available about princesses. (Here’s a booklist<\/a> to get you started.)<\/p>\n

Or consider books about London or about England or about Westminster Abbey or \u2026\u00a0 As with any display, the only real obstacle is your imagination! What items do you think should be included in a display such as this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hours away from the Royal Wedding!\u00a0 Tomorrow, Prince William & Catherine Middleton will be married at Westminster Abbey. Kids and adults alike have heard about this grand event for weeks; some estimates say as many as two billion people will watch all or part of the ceremony. Whether you are counting down the hours until television\/Internet coverage of the festivities begins, or you are one of those not at all interested in the extravagance of this particular brouhaha, this is an excellent opportunity to build a quick and easy topical display at your library. Many children\u2019s books are available which would be appropriate for a display of this type. Consider displaying a variety of fiction and informational books about weddings, with information about their customs, traditions, & significance such as Weddings by Ann Morris or Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl by Barbara Park. Or consider books…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-mary-r-voors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}