{"id":2815,"date":"2011-03-02T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2011-03-02T23:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T03:29:56","slug":"tweetle-beetles-for-read-across-america-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Tweetle Beetles for Read Across America Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was 3 or 4 years old, my mother read me a new book, <em>Fox in Socks<\/em>, by Dr. Seuss.  What really impressed me about it was the warning at the front:  &#8220;Take it slowly.  This book is DANGEROUS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that was why, over the years, I was inordinately proud of being able to read it quickly.  I am the third of thirteen children, so I got plenty of practice reading aloud to my younger brothers and sisters.  Then I started reading aloud to my own sons.  I think it was as an adult that I finally got where I could read all of <em>Fox in Socks<\/em> quickly and without a mistake.  And that was an accomplishment that took years to achieve!  (Though I don&#8217;t prove it here.  I think the camera flustered me!)  Now that my sons are grown, I&#8217;ve become a librarian, so I can continue to read aloud to children.<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago on YouTube, I saw a video of a teenager reading <em>Fox in Socks<\/em> extremely quickly.  Much, much faster than I can do, no contest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mB90p1NVHCo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p>However, watching that video gave me the bug.  I can go pretty fast, and I think listeners can actually understand what I&#8217;m saying.  At any rate, I wanted to make my own video, because what a lovely excuse to read <em>Fox in Socks<\/em> as fast as I can!  And what better day to pick than Read Across America Day, Dr. Seuss&#8217;s Birthday?<\/p>\n<p>So I made an announcement in the library and rounded up the kids in the children&#8217;s area so I had an audience, and went at it.  Lots of fun!  I will have to try to do it faster (and with less flubs) next year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c6uRUA7b2PM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After tweeting about reading Fox in Socks, I came up with the following about <a href=\"http:\/\/sljbattleofthebooks.com\/\">School Library Journal&#8217;s Battle of the Books<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>When a reader tweets on twitter about which novel is the sweeter, it\u2019s a<br \/>\nTweeting Reader Sweeter Novel Twitter Chatter Battle.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Read Across America Day, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was 3 or 4 years old, my mother read me a new book, Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss. What really impressed me about it was the warning at the front: &#8220;Take it slowly. This book is DANGEROUS!&#8221; Perhaps that was why, over the years, I was inordinately proud of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,49,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-easy-readers","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}