{"id":20473,"date":"2017-02-27T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20473"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:00:40","slug":"manatee-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20473","title":{"rendered":"Manatee in the Garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air in western North Carolina. Even though it&#8217;s February, the unseasonably warm temps have made the trees start blooming early and have turned my mind toward forthcoming books about gardens.\u00a0<!--more--><br \/>\nToday I&#8217;m giving you a sneak peek of a couple of April titles\u00a0for babies and toddlers from Blue Manatee Press, a small independent press owned by the indie booksellers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemanateebooks.com\/\">Blue Manatee Children&#8217;s Bookstore<\/a> in Cincinnati, Ohio.<br \/>\nTwo of my favorites from Blue Manatee&#8217;s spring list are board books using creative photography in the illustrations to an enticing (even delicious) effect.<br \/>\n<em>In Spring&#8230; \/ En Primavera<\/em> has bilingual text by Susanna Madinabeitia Manso and features an adorable little boy having some hands-on fun with nature in the photo illustrations by Emily Hanako Momohara.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/InSpring-spread5-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20483\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/InSpring-spread5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Allie&#8217;s Garden<\/em> combines drawings of a little girl with photographed garden scenes including animals made of vegetables, like a bunny rabbit made of potatoes and this yummy carrot fox.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AlliesGarden-spread5-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20480\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AlliesGarden-spread5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWritten by Sabra Chebby and illustrated by Marla Osborn, <em>Allie&#8217;s Garden<\/em> is in the same style of <em>Hungry Henry<\/em>, an earlier book written and illustrated by Osborn.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HungyHenry-5-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20481\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HungyHenry-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn addition to being fun for the home library, books like these are great for preschools or other organizations looking to get kids engaged with gardening and healthy eating from a very young age. For instance, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is a regional nonprofit that Spellbound\u00a0often works with. They have\u00a0a strong educational outreach program called &#8220;Growing Minds &#8211; \u00a0Farm to School&#8221; and are always looking for\u00a0new titles like this. I&#8217;ll be recommending these come April!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New baby books from Blue Manatee Press that look good enough to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}