{"id":22795,"date":"2011-05-26T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=22795"},"modified":"2011-05-26T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:57:03","slug":"book-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/book-5\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns native has new picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11may\/starth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>Janet Kloeckner Halfmann<!--more-->, who grew up in rural St. Johns, released her 33rd children&#8217;s book May 24.<br \/>\nTitled &#8220;Star of the Sea: A Day in the life Life of a Starfish,&#8221; the book follows the adventures of an ochre sea star as she hunts for breakfast on a rocky seashore. Illustrator Joan Paley created the book&#8217;s collage pictures using hand-painted papers. The nonfiction picture book from Henry Holt is for children ages 5-9.<br \/>\n&#8220;Richie&#8217;s Picks&#8221; called the book &#8220;A stellar read&#8221; and &#8220;Publishers Weekly&#8221; said, &#8220;Poetic verse and vibrant collages characterize this tribute to starfish.&#8221; The book is a Junior Library Guild Selection.<br \/>\nHalfmann said she has long been fascinated by sea stars. In researching the book, she found these ocean creatures to be even more amazing than she imagined.<br \/>\n&#8220;I learned that they can hunt only underwater because they use hundreds of tiny, water-powered feet to move,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And a sea star can spit its stomach right out of its mouth and into a tiny crack in the shells of a mussel.&#8221;<br \/>\nSince writing the book, Halfmann has been able to touch a live ochre sea star at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.<br \/>\n&#8220;I had to examine every inch of it\u2014its tube feet, the mouth on its underside, its spines,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Star of the Sea&#8221; is available at area and online bookstores, and later this summer will be at the Clinton County Arts Council Art Gallery in St. Johns, which now carries another recent Halfmann book, &#8220;Good Night, Little Sea Otter.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11may\/star.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Kloeckner Halfmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}