{"id":17883,"date":"2016-02-04T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=17883"},"modified":"2023-10-15T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T16:32:22","slug":"a-valentine-for-blobfish-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=17883","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Valentine for Blobfish&#8217; Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Luen Yang may be the new National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature but the 2016 Ambassador to Young People&#8217;s Science and Nature books is unquestionably the blobfish. No child looking at a blobfish can fail to assume that he has feelings, and that those feelings have been hurt. Whether headlining Jess Keating&#8217;s excellent new &#8220;pink is for everyone&#8221; themed <em>Pink Is for Blobfish <\/em>(Knopf, Feb.), or helping narrate Jessica Olien&#8217;s delightful <em>The Blobfish Book<\/em> (Harper, May), the blobfish clearly is the perfect ambassador to engage both children&#8217;s empathy and their interest in science.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen we got ready to shelve <em>Pink Is for Blobfish<\/em> on Tuesday, an idea for a contest combining a great nonfiction story hour with a fun Valentine&#8217;s Day themed writing project occurred to me. Here it is.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17898 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/blobfly-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"731\" \/>Our elementary school library partners loved the idea and the contest is underway. Personally I can&#8217;t wait to see the delighted look on blobfish&#8217;s face as he reads his Valentines.\u00b9 I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll want to share them after the holiday.<br \/>\n\u00b9He does read Shelftalker comments if you want to leave him a Valentine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Science and Nature Books needs some love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34286,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions\/34286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}