{"id":37870,"date":"2020-06-25T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T22:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37870"},"modified":"2023-07-10T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:58:44","slug":"featured-speaker-sonia-manzano-at-ala-virtual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37870","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker Sonia Manzano at ALA Virtual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always good to hear &#8220;Maria&#8221; from Sesame Street!  Sonia Manzano was talking about her new picture book with National Geographic Kids, <em>A World Together<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a book about empathy, with photographs of kids from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Our world is surely interconnected.  She mentioned the song they used to sing on Sesame Street about &#8220;Co-operation makes it happen&#8230;.&#8221;  Working together is the best way to go &#8212; but now it&#8217;s seen as a sign of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Children mimic the behavior of denigrating co-operation.  It&#8217;s more important than ever to show the value of co-operation.<\/p>\n<p>This is her first book working with photographs, so she reflected on the power of images.  She remembered her own fascination with photos of Puerto Rico when she was a kid.  Her parents were from there, but she&#8217;d never been.  Photos bring depth.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes it helps kids not to be fearful of kids who don&#8217;t look like them.  This is a celebration of everybody in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Images in books give children room to use their imaginations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always good to hear &#8220;Maria&#8221; from Sesame Street! Sonia Manzano was talking about her new picture book with National Geographic Kids, A World Together. It&#8217;s a book about empathy, with photographs of kids from all over the world. Our world is surely interconnected. She mentioned the song they used to sing on Sesame Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,419],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-37870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-corner","category-conf-corner","tag-alavirtual20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870","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=37870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37871,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870\/revisions\/37871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}