{"id":221,"date":"2015-09-04T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:13:27","slug":"well-defined-vocabulary-in-rhyme-by-michael-salinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme by Michael Salinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Well-defined-front-cover.jpg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-222\" alt=\"Well defined front cover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Well-defined-front-cover.jpg-214x300.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Well-defined-front-cover.jpg-214x300.png 214w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Well-defined-front-cover.jpg.png 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>\u201cMichael Salinger is one of the most gifted and loved performance poets on the circuit today, and like his other poetry, <i>Well Defined<\/i> has the style and attitude that young readers love.\u00a0 This approach to vocabulary can\u2019t help but succeed because each poem\u2019s story leaves an indelible image in the reader\u2019s mind.\u00a0 Noah Webster is surely smiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Blasingame, Associate Professor, Department of English Education, Arizona State University Winner of the IRA Arbuthnot Award<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe personifications are witty and evocative, and the vocabulary is choice enough that the explorations will be intriguing to veteran users and novices alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children\u2019s Books<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>\u201cThe poems are as well-intentioned as they are well-written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Voice of Youth Advocates<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMichael Salinger is one of the most gifted and loved performance poets on the circuit today, and like his other poetry, Well Defined has the style and attitude that young readers love.\u00a0 This approach to vocabulary can\u2019t help but succeed because each poem\u2019s story leaves an indelible image in the reader\u2019s mind.\u00a0 Noah Webster is surely smiling.\u201d James Blasingame, Associate Professor, Department of English Education, Arizona State University Winner of the IRA Arbuthnot Award \u201cThe personifications are witty and evocative, and the vocabulary is choice enough that the explorations will be intriguing to veteran users and novices alike.\u201d The Bulletin of the Center for Children\u2019s Books \u00a0\u201cThe poems are as well-intentioned as they are well-written.\u201d Voice of Youth Advocates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Well-defined-front-cover.jpg.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}