{"id":324,"date":"2009-08-11T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/08\/11\/my-favorite-picture-book-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:10:00","slug":"my-favorite-picture-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Picture Book of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t know it, today, August 11th, a really great picture book goes on sale. It’s a multi-cultural rhyming call and response book that asks the very important question: How Do You Wokka-Wokka?<\/em> and it was written by none other than ShelfTalker’s Elizabeth Bluemle\"\" and my partner. Okay, I’m so proud I’m practially bursting, but even if hadn’t owned a store with her for thirteen years, I’d still love, love this book.<\/p>\n

Already the book has garnered excellent reviews, including a starred review<\/a> from School<\/em> Library<\/em> Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is a fun, fun, book. And our nephew, Will, was the inspiration for it. He was playing with his mom when he was two and a half (he’s ten now), and kept asking her (and everyone else in hearing distance), "How do you wokka-wokka?" No one could figure out what he meant, so finally his mom played along and made up a silly dance move. Little Will got the whole family dancing together in their own unique ways, and the seed of the book idea was planted.<\/p>\n

This is a lively, infectiously rhyming book. The response at the story hour done on Cape Cod was delightful. Lots of giggling children trying to find their own Wokka.  If you happen to be in Shelburne, Vt., this Saturday, come to our block party release event with free hot dogs, cake, face painting, and African drumming for all the kids.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t be happier for Elizabeth, or my store’s bottom line, which is going to have a nice bump this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t know it, today, August 11th, a really great picture book goes on sale. It’s a multi-cultural rhyming call and response book that asks the very important question: How Do You Wokka-Wokka? and it was written by none other than ShelfTalker’s Elizabeth Bluemle and my partner. Okay, I’m so proud I’m practially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","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\/324","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}