{"id":1832,"date":"2010-11-30T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:18:15","slug":"tis-the-season-for-book-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the Season for Book Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2010\/11\/bluecardi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2010\/11\/bluecardi-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bluecardi\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2010\/11\/bluecardi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2010\/11\/bluecardi-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2010\/11\/bluecardi.jpg 1981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOur local bookshop runs a Book Angel program where you can buy discounted books for children in need as holiday presents.<br \/>\nThe tree of kids to gift with books included a tag for a two-year-old girl.  Ezri is inching up on her second birthday so we selected this girl to gift books.  She seems much more two than one these days.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping each year Ezri and I can pick a book she likes to donate to someone around her age.  Here&#8217;s what we did <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=742\">last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year I picked (and Ezri approved with a loud &#8220;YES&#8221;) the purchase of:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Time-Sleep-Sheep-Cat\/dp\/0061728470\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1291151349&#038;sr=1-1-spell\"><strong>Time to Sleep Sheep the Sheep<\/strong> <\/a>by Mo Willems<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Here-Comes-Mean-Dust-Bunny\/dp\/1416991506\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1291151569&#038;sr=1-1\">Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny<\/a> <\/strong>by Jan Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing the girl&#8217;s particular interests, I went with universal humor and re-readability. The Book Angel tree does make me feel festive.  I will probably revisit it and pick books for one of the teens on the tree &#8211;  a tradition of mine that predates Ezri.  Thanks, Anderson&#8217;s Bookshop, for being part of my holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our local bookshop runs a Book Angel program where you can buy discounted books for children in need as holiday presents. The tree of kids to gift with books included a tag for a two-year-old girl. Ezri is inching up on her second birthday so we selected this girl to gift books. She seems much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}