{"id":854,"date":"2008-09-10T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:29:22","slug":"the-book-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"The Book Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SMg7se1cXaI\/AAAAAAAAAQ8\/hDh5xw5lCPk\/s1600-h\/booktree.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244507401450446242\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SMg7se1cXaI\/AAAAAAAAAQ8\/hDh5xw5lCPk\/s200\/booktree.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpress.org\/shop\/item.asp?itemid=1344\">The Book Tree: A Christian Reference for Children&#8217;s Literature, 2d edition<\/a><br \/>\nElizabeth McCallum &amp; Jane Scott<br \/>\n(Canon Press, 2008), pb., 275 pp.<\/div>\n<p>This is a wonderful book that will be a great resource for every family. A mother-daughter team provides here an annotated, age-graded list of their picks of the best books. Their prefaces are very valuable in themselves as they comment on the shift in children&#8217;s books- how classics of the past are now often disparaged and how so much of contemporary children&#8217;s literature contains questionable material (reasons for finding good recommendations and not limiting yourself to what happens to be on offer and the standard bookstore).<\/p>\n<p>It is a great help to have others recommendations and descriptions in your own book buying. I would have liked to have critique as well as summary in their listing of each book, but one can&#8217;t have everything!<\/p>\n<p>This is a great book to have and give away. As the authors note, this is a great book also for those without young children so that they can choose good books as presents for children and families with children.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(This book is not yet listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"drznwrdrbsdvrykzephh\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Tree: A Christian Reference for Children&#8217;s Literature, 2d edition Elizabeth McCallum &amp; Jane Scott (Canon Press, 2008), pb., 275 pp. This is a wonderful book that will be a great resource for every family. A mother-daughter team provides here an annotated, age-graded list of their picks of the best books. Their prefaces are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Book Tree&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}