{"id":15526,"date":"2011-12-03T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2014-05-16T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T03:14:30","slug":"reaching-y-judy-ann-sadler-illustrated-by-susan-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/reaching-y-judy-ann-sadler-illustrated-by-susan-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching by Judy Ann Sadler, illustrated by Susan Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/12\/Reaching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27808\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/12\/Reaching-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Reaching\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s another weekend &#8230; which, if you&#8217;re a parent, means you&#8217;re probably driving (or, if you&#8217;re\u00a0lucky enough to have options other than being stuck in your car, you&#8217;re\u00a0walking, bus-ing, subway-ing) helter-skelter trying to get your kids to practice, games, meets, study groups, meetings, and on and on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In our too-hurried, overscheduled lives, we all need the occasional reminder to reconnect with our families. Indeed, raising a baby takes at least a whole village of extended family &#8230; oh, but the reward of those soft snuggles! [Anyone have a baby I can borrow for a few hours?]\n<p>Mama, Daddy, Sister all reach out to Baby to huddle and cuddle. Grandma and Grandpa, Oma and Opa are happy to play, while cousins join in on the fun (Puppy, too!). Great-gran is ready with a book, while Auntie and Uncle lovingly hover near by. So many family members buoy up Baby, until all too soon, &#8220;Baby is reaching \/ For everything new \/ Looking and pointing\u00a0\u2013 \/There&#8217;s so much to do!&#8221; Thankfully, his parents have a little more time before &#8220;Baby will reach \/ For the moon and the stars &#8230; \/ But not quite yet, Baby, \/ For now you&#8217;re still ours!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/judyannsadler.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Judy Ann Sadler<\/a> creates a gentle lullaby while illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/susan-mitchell.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Susan Mitchell<\/a> adds a colorful touch &#8230; not just in her choice of color palette but with clearly multicultural grandparents (Oma and Opa in addition to Grandma and Grandpa) and multi-ethnic cousins and Auntie, too. In today&#8217;s world of shifting borders, <em>Reaching<\/em> is a timely reflection of the global village in so many of our own families!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another weekend &#8230; which, if you&#8217;re a parent, means you&#8217;re probably driving (or, if you&#8217;re\u00a0lucky enough to have options other than being stuck in your car, you&#8217;re\u00a0walking, bus-ing, subway-ing) helter-skelter trying to get your kids to practice, games, meets, study groups, meetings, and on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,60],"tags":[6608,10,135,2308,160,2309,2310],"class_list":["post-15526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-judy-ann-sadler","tag-kiddie-fun","tag-reaching","tag-susan-mitchell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reaching by Judy Ann Sadler, illustrated by Susan Mitchell - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/reaching-y-judy-ann-sadler-illustrated-by-susan-mitchell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reaching by Judy Ann Sadler, illustrated by Susan Mitchell - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s another weekend &#8230; 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