{"id":7967,"date":"2014-01-26T21:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2014-01-26T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:59:32","slug":"hmh-books-for-young-readers-dinner-alamw14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/hmh-books-for-young-readers-dinner-alamw14\/","title":{"rendered":"HMH Books for Young Readers Dinner #alamw14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was lucky enough to attend the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers dinner and spring 2014 book preview. I got a first-hand look at some of their brand new titles. Some of the ones I am most excited about are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hooray for Hat!<\/em>\u00a0by Brian Won &#8211; This looks like it will be a cute picture book about how the power of a good hat can brighten up any bad mood.<\/li>\n<li><em>Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World\u00a0<\/em>by Steve Jenkins &#8211; Steve Jenkins is a perennial favorite of mine and this book about animal vision looks just as fascinating as his other works.<\/li>\n<li><em>Barbarian Lord\u00a0<\/em>by Matt Smith &#8211; This upcoming graphic novel about Norse mythology has some beautiful artwork and the story sounds appealing to boot!<\/li>\n<li><em>A Death-Struck Year<\/em> by Makiia Lucier &#8211; Set in 1918 during the influenza epidemic, this book was described as being &#8220;Anne of Green Gables meets Life As We Knew It. &#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as a special surprise, we were treated to an exclusive preview of the film version of The Giver!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was lucky enough to attend the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers dinner and spring 2014 book preview. I got a first-hand look at some of their brand new titles. Some of the ones I am most excited about are: Hooray for Hat!\u00a0by Brian Won &#8211; This looks like it will be a cute picture book about how the power of a good hat can brighten up any bad mood. Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World\u00a0by Steve Jenkins &#8211; Steve Jenkins is a perennial favorite of mine and this book about animal vision looks just as fascinating as his other works. Barbarian Lord\u00a0by Matt Smith &#8211; This upcoming graphic novel about Norse mythology has some beautiful artwork and the story sounds appealing to boot! A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier &#8211; Set in 1918 during the influenza epidemic, this book was described as being &#8220;Anne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"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":[417,151],"tags":[439,800],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwinter-2014","category-live-blogging","tag-alamw14","tag-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}