{"id":28734,"date":"2012-05-03T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=28734"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:44:07","slug":"halfmanns-latest-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/halfmanns-latest-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfmann&#039;s latest wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet (Kloeckner) Halfmann&#8217;s new book <em>Eggs 1, 2, 3<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nSt. Johns native and children\u2019s author Janet (Kloeckner) Halfmann\u2019s newly released book, <em>Eggs 1, 2, 3: Who Will the Babies Be?<\/em> won a Gold Best Book Award from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.<br \/>\nThe judges had this to say about the book, for ages 3 and up: \u201cYoung science and counting all in one charming book about the many creatures that hatch from eggs.\u201d<br \/>\nIn <em>Eggs 1, 2, 3<\/em> ten colorful spreads with fold-outs lead young readers from a single penguin egg to an ostrich&#8217;s clutch of 10 eggs. Song-like, non-rhyming verses give clues for guessing who might hatch. Flip the flap to find out &#8220;Who will the babies be?&#8221;<br \/>\nHere\u2019s an excerpt from the book:<br \/>\nFive eggs, softly glowing,<br \/>\nlighting up the grass on a summer night.<br \/>\nWho will the babies be?<br \/>\n(Lift the flap to reveal)<br \/>\n5 wiggly glowworms,<br \/>\ntheir tiny tails shining,<br \/>\ngrowing up to be fireflies.<br \/>\n<em>Eggs 1, 2, 3<\/em> is published by Blue Apple Books. Art is by Betsy Thompson, who uses richly textured papers and fabrics to fashion cut-paper collages.<br \/>\nThe Oppenheim Toy Portfolio was founded in 1989 as the only independent consumer review of children&#8217;s media by child development experts Joanne and Stephanie Oppenheim. The awards have become a benchmark of excellence with consumers, toy makers, and the media. Testing is done by educators, parents, and kids.<br \/>\nHalfmann is the award-winning author of thirty-five books for children. Another title new this spring is <em>Home in the Cave.<\/em> Other recent titles include <em>Star of the Sea: A Day in the Life of a Starfish<\/em>, <em>Fur and Feathers<\/em>, <em>Good Night, Little Sea Otter<\/em>, <em>Little Skink\u2019s Tail<\/em>, and S<em>even Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story<\/em>.<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 is the mother of four and the grandmother of four. Halfmann grew up on a farm in Michigan and now lives in South Milwaukee, WI. You can find out more at her website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janethalfmann.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.janethalfmann.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet (Kloeckner) Halfmann&#8217;s new book Eggs 1, 2, 3<\/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-28734","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\/28734","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=28734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}