{"id":306,"date":"2015-06-22T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=306"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T21:32:26","slug":"across-the-pond-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"More from across the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Bender reports from New York, where the third annual Children\u2019s Non-Fiction conference took place between 12\u201314 June.<\/p>\n<p>The number of attendees \u2013 made up of writers, publishers and academics \u2013 reached 160 this year \u2013 up 30 since 2014. Lionel told &#8216;Publishers\u2019 Weekly&#8217;\u00a0that the aim of the conference was to encourage\u00a0&#8216;a dialogue between educators, authors, and publishers&#8217; \u2013 and\u00a0to reach \u2018everybody involved in children\u2019s nonfiction in every way&#8217;. He\u2019s committed to the genre: &#8216;Some children read fiction. All children read nonfiction. We have a responsibility to create and provide great non-fiction in print and digital formats.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ncluaq4\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ncluaq4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Bender reports from New York, where the third annual Children\u2019s Non-Fiction conference took place between 12\u201314 June. The number of attendees \u2013 made up of writers, publishers and academics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}