{"id":21,"date":"2026-11-02T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:49:36","slug":"elementor-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/","title":{"rendered":"aa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21\" class=\"elementor elementor-21\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e12985 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div \" data-id=\"9e12985\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"9e12985\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-id=\"9e12985\">\n    \t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"e-image-base e-default-img \" data-interaction-id=\"d7fd3b8\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"d7fd3b8\" id=\"23\" src=\"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand.jpg\" width=\"2199\" height=\"1711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand.jpg 2199w, https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand-1536x1195.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/D4-Website-Picture-with-hand-2048x1594.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-351d884 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"351d884\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-448927c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"448927c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I began writing children\u2019s books while attending Patricia MacLachlan\u2019s semester-long course in children\u2019s literature at Smith College. I had an article (and some photographs) featured on National Geographic Kid\u2019s website and a story (and several more photographs) published in Highlights for Children. I am the author of The Pen That Pa Built, which was named \u201cThe Best Children\u2019s Books of the Year\u201d by the Children\u2019s Book Committee for Bank Street College of Education. I was also a featured author and lecturer at the first annual Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona. In addition to writing, I am an early literary specialist at the children\u2019s branch of the Kenosha Public Library in Wisconsin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began writing children\u2019s books while attending Patricia MacLachlan\u2019s semester-long course in children\u2019s literature at Smith College. I had an article (and some photographs) featured on National Geographic Kid\u2019s website and a story (and several more photographs) published in Highlights for Children. I am the author of The Pen That Pa Built, which was named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidedwardschildrensbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}