{"id":11717,"date":"2010-11-24T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T17:48:12","slug":"hereville-is-a-%e2%80%9ckirkus-best-kids-book-of-2010%e2%80%b3-in-three-categories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11717","title":{"rendered":"Hereville is a \u201cKirkus Best Kids Book of 2010\u2033 In Three Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/best-of\/2010\/children-and-teens\/\">Kirkus Reviews&#8217; annual &#8220;Best Books for Children and Teens&#8221;<\/a> has come out, and Hereville is listed as a &#8220;Best&#8221; in THREE categories &#8212; &#8220;Graphic Novel,&#8221; &#8220;Fantasy and Science Fiction,&#8221; and &#8220;Fiction With Great Girl Characters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Within the book industry, Kirkus has a reputation for being very tough reviewers, so these listings mean a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the other Kirkus &#8220;best&#8221; listees as well! It&#8217;s an honor to be in company like this. I&#8217;ll single out three folks I&#8217;m lucky enough to have met in real life: Tom Angleberger for <a href=\"http:\/\/origamiyoda.wordpress.com\/\"><em>The Strange Case of Origami Yoda<\/em><\/a> (another triple listee! And a book with an even more unique premise than Hereville&#8217;s), Raina Telgemeier for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/goraina.com\/?p=338\">Smile <\/a><\/em>, and Hope Larson for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hopelarson.com\/?p=136\">Mercury<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkus Reviews&#8217; annual &#8220;Best Books for Children and Teens&#8221; has come out, and Hereville is listed as a &#8220;Best&#8221; in THREE categories &#8212; &#8220;Graphic Novel,&#8221; &#8220;Fantasy and Science Fiction,&#8221; and &#8220;Fiction With Great Girl Characters.&#8221; Within the book industry, Kirkus has a reputation for being very tough reviewers, so these listings mean a lot. Congratulations [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11717\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}