{"id":2872,"date":"2014-11-20T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2014-11-20T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:18:18","slug":"fantasy-science-fiction-and-childrens-literature-at-the-national-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2014\/11\/20\/fantasy-science-fiction-and-childrens-literature-at-the-national-book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Children&#8217;s Literature at the National Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/11\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2873\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/11\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"232\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/11\/download-1.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2014\/11\/download-1-201x300.jpeg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0Woodson, who won for \u201cBrown Girl Dreaming,\u201d her memoir in verse of growing up African-American in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, said, \u201cIt\u2019s so important that we talk to our old people before they become ancestors, and get their stories.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have framed those words and placed them above my desk while I work on\u00a0<em>Annotated African American Folktales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Ursula LeGuin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/11\/20\/365434149\/book-news-ursula-k-le-guin-steals-the-show-at-the-national-book-awards<\/p>\n<p>I was a fan of Lemony Snicket until I watched this:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/gawker.com\/lemony-snicket-makes-series-of-racist-jokes-at-national-1661096744<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Woodson, who won for \u201cBrown Girl Dreaming,\u201d her memoir in verse of growing up African-American in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, said, \u201cIt\u2019s so important that we talk to our old people before they become ancestors, and get their stories.\u201d\u00a0 I have framed those words and placed them above my desk while I work on\u00a0Annotated African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}