{"id":6024,"date":"2015-11-13T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:32:20","slug":"connecticut-childrens-book-fair-2015-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/11\/13\/connecticut-childrens-book-fair-2015-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair 2015: This Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/11\/Lowly-reading_sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6025\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/11\/Lowly-reading_sm.png\" alt=\"Lowly-reading_sm\" width=\"188\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Smiles, laughter, children&#8217;s books and their authors await you at the 24th Annual <strong>Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair<\/strong> happening this <strong>Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15<\/strong> at the University of Connecticut.\u00a0 The fun begins at <strong>10:00am<\/strong>.\u00a0 Check out this year&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/bookfair.uconn.edu\/2015.htm\"> exciting schedule of Authors and Illustrators<\/a> featuring Ross MacDonald, Wendell Minor, Florence Minor, Cynthia Lord, P. J. Lynch, Jane Sutcliffe, Pamela Zagarenski, and Connecticut&#8217;s-own Barbara McClintock.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bookfair.uconn.edu\/info.htm\">Parking, directions, and links to local attractions<\/a>, including the Ballard Museum of Puppetry, are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bookfair.uconn.edu\/index.html\">Book Fair website<\/a>.\u00a0 Drop in to hear distinguished illustrators discuss their work, browse the latest releases, attend storytime and other events throughout the day including a visit by Clifford the Big Red Dog!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">The Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair is a program of the University of Connecticut Libraries and the UConn Co-op. Proceeds from sales at the event are used for the growth of the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/nclc.uconn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northeast Children&#8217;s Literature Collection<\/a><\/b> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Archives and Special Collections<\/b> <\/a>at the University of Connecticut Libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles, laughter, children&#8217;s books and their authors await you at the 24th Annual Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair happening this Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15 at the University of Connecticut.\u00a0 The fun begins at 10:00am.\u00a0 Check out this year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/11\/13\/connecticut-childrens-book-fair-2015-this-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1za","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}