{"id":3450,"date":"2020-06-10T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:31:39","slug":"johnnys-pheasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/06\/10\/johnnys-pheasant\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/06\/10\/johnnys-pheasant\/johnny\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3452\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2020\/06\/johnny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>Did you know that June is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca\/eng\/1466616436543\/1534874922512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Indigenous History Month?<\/a> \u00a0This week at school I shared a new book, <em><strong>Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant<\/strong><\/em>, with many classes.\u00a0 It was written by Cheryl Minnema who is a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and and illustrated by Julie Flett who is a Cree-Metis author, illustrator and artist.\u00a0 Julie Flett is one of my favourite author\/illustrators and we read her book, <em><strong>Birdsong<\/strong><\/em>, earlier in the year as part of our Canadian Picture Book of the Year read alouds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2019\/11\/28\/the-canadian-picture-book-of-the-year-is-back\/birdsong\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2932\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2019\/11\/birdsong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2019\/11\/birdsong.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2019\/11\/birdsong-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students we excited to read <em><strong>Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant<\/strong> <\/em>and made lots of connections to our previous read aloud of <em><strong>Birdsong<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 They loved the beauty of both the words and illustrations.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure <em><strong>Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant<\/strong><\/em> will be on everyone&#8217;s wishlist for check out in September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/06\/10\/johnnys-pheasant\/czmedal\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3453\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2020\/06\/czmedal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>In January 2020, Cheryl Minnema received the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccbc.education.wisc.edu\/books\/zolotow.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlotte Zolotow Award<\/a> for <em><strong>Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The award is given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that June is National Indigenous History Month? \u00a0This week at school I shared a new book, Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant, with many classes.\u00a0 It was written by Cheryl Minnema who is a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and and illustrated by Julie Flett who is a Cree-Metis author, illustrator and artist.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/06\/10\/johnnys-pheasant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Johnny&#8217;s Pheasant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}