{"id":28084,"date":"2012-03-29T20:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=28084"},"modified":"2012-03-29T20:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T00:53:06","slug":"author-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/author-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Halfmann wins another award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12mar\/starth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>Star of the Sea<!--more--><br \/>\nJanet Kloeckner Halfmann&#8217;s nonfiction picture book, &#8220;Star of the Sea: A Day in the Life of a Starfish,&#8221; has won the Wisconsin Writers Tofte\/Wright Children\u2019s Literature Award.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12mar\/star1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Council for Wisconsin Writers announced the award March 22. Halfmann will receive $500 and a week-long writer\u2019s residency. Awards were decided by out-of-state judges and will be presented at a May 12 Awards Luncheon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12mar\/star2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>Halfmann was inspired to write \u201cStar of the Sea\u201d because of her long-time fascination with sea stars.<br \/>\nShe is the award-winning author of 35 children\u2019s books. Other recent titles include \u201cHome in the Cave;\u201d \u201cFur and Feathers;\u201d \u201cGood Night, Little Sea Otter;\u201d \u201cLittle Skink\u2019s Tail;\u201d and \u201cSeven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story.\u201d<br \/>\nBefore becoming a children\u2019s author, Halfmann was a daily newspaper reporter, a children\u2019s magazine editor, and a creator of coloring and activity books for Golden Books. She grew up on a farm in rural St. Johns, and now lives in South Milwaukee, WI.<br \/>\nSigned copies of &#8220;Star of the Sea&#8221; and several of Halfmann&#8217;s other books are available at the Clinton County Council of the Arts Gallery in downtown St. Johns. The books also are available at local and online bookstores.<br \/>\nMore about the winners is at the Council for Wisconsin Writers website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiswriters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.wiswriters.org<\/a>. CWW is a non-profit organization founded in 1964 to promote awareness of Wisconsin\u2019s literary heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star of the Sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28084","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\/28084","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=28084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}