{"id":33472,"date":"2020-12-06T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33472"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:11:15","slug":"the-animal-awards-this-year-there-are-50-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/06\/the-animal-awards-this-year-there-are-50-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"The Animal Awards: This year there are 50 winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ice Lover Award goes to the Polar Bear, the Crafty Hunter Award goes to the Tiger, and the Terribly Tall Award goes to the Giraffe, as usual.<\/p>\n

\"\"This new coffee-table format kids book, The Animal Awards: Celebrate NATURE with 50 fabulous creatures from the animal kingdom<\/a>\"\", by Martin Jenkins with illustrations by Tor Freeman*, is a rollicking riot of excellent information about (fifty) animals, with fun illustrations.<\/p>\n

The ceremony is about to begin. Roll up, roll up, roll up! The ceremony is about to begin so prepare to be amazed. We\u2019re here to celebrate the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the animal kingdom, and shine a spotlight on the finest achievements and unique qualities of some special individuals. Among others, we will be awarding prizes to the fastest, the oldest, the strongest, the smelliest, the tallest, and the longest. We have some unusual prize winners and some quite scary ones, too. As we run through our short lists you\u2019ll have the privilege of meeting our esteemed guests from dangerous, frogs to organised ants, to spiders that have devised all sorts of strange and admirable ways of catching their food. It\u2019s been a really difficult job choosing winners but we hope you approve and find plenty to marvel at in this beastly line-up of champions. Now put your hands together and clap! The Animal Awards is about to begin…<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Tor Freeman<\/strong> is a London-based illustrator. In 2012 she was awarded the Sendak Fellowship. In 2017 she won the Guardian Graphic Short Story Prize. Her books include the Digby Dog and Olive series.<\/p>\n

Martin Jenkins<\/strong> is conservation biologist and children\u2019s writer. His jobs have varied greatly: \u201cI\u2019ve been an orchid-sleuth in Germany, a timber detective in Kenya and an investigator of the chameleon trade in Madagascar.\u201d His titles include Emperor\u2019s Egg, winner of the Times Junior Information Book of the Year Award, Can We Save the Tiger, winner of the SLA Award, and Gulliver\u2019s Travels, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Cambridge and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ice Lover Award goes to the Polar Bear, the Crafty Hunter Award goes to the Tiger, and the Terribly Tall Award goes to the Giraffe, as usual. This new coffee-table format kids book, The Animal Awards: Celebrate NATURE with 50 fabulous creatures from the animal kingdom, by Martin Jenkins with illustrations by Tor Freeman*, … Continue reading The Animal Awards: This year there are 50 winners!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5039,5024,5029],"tags":[2604,2254,1031,557,5729],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/coveranimalawards.jpg?fit=427%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8HS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33478,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472\/revisions\/33478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}