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My reading and book signing at the Tenafly library was a blast!\u00a0 Big thanks to Latricia Batchelor, the children’s librarian, for bringing me in.\u00a0\u00a0I just love getting the kids excited about their fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 Check out my friend on the banana phone!\u00a0 One child asked a great question…He asked, “Why did you write poetry about so many foods we don’t know about?”\u00a0 This quesiton is brilliant!\u00a0 I purposely tried to mix up the fruits and vegetables I wrote about so that some, like apples and bananas and oranges would be familiar and like “coming home” for my readers.\u00a0 I could picture a child saying, I know about oranges<\/em>!\u00a0 Then, I tried to pick some fruits and vegetables that might be less familiar to my readers, like acorn squash and parsnips, so that kids might be inclined to try some of these new, healthy foods.\u00a0 I could hear a child saying, “I never knew that was an acorn squash, I thought it was a pumpkin!”<\/em>\u00a0 I hope the mix works for you!\u00a0You can buy the book right here<\/a>.\u00a0 So please, let me know what you think!<\/p>\n Finally the children wrote their own fantastic poem.\u00a0 Here it is…<\/p>\n Tenafly is Perfect<\/span><\/p>\n We go\u00a0by Tenafly<\/p>\n The library is great<\/p>\n We draw pizzas in the Tenafly Library<\/p>\n Boots are big<\/p>\n After dinner we play puzzles<\/p>\n The Tenafly Diner is fun<\/p>\n Self control is important to people<\/p>\n And hugs are too<\/p>\n Chicken pox are not good<\/p>\n But this poem is<\/p>\n Thanks again to all the folks, kids and grownups alike, who came out to hear some poetry and have some fun last night at the Tenafly Public Library.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My reading and book signing at the Tenafly library was a blast!\u00a0 Big thanks to Latricia Batchelor, the children’s librarian, for bringing me in.\u00a0\u00a0I just love getting the kids excited about their fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 Check out my friend on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}