{"product_id":"halfway-wild-9781934031483","title":"Halfway Wild","description":"\u003cb\u003e2017 Moonbean Children's Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Gold Medal for Best Picture Book (Ages 4-8)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017 Maine Literary Awards Children's Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn some days, there's just not a good word for someone to describe the way they are feeling. If their socks are sagging and their pants are wrinkled, what do you call it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether a reader is feeling like a turtle or halfway wild, author Laura Freudig has found a delightful new way to describe those feelings in this poetic and playful picture book that connects children, not just to feelings and emotions, but also to animals and the quirks and patterns of the natural world. Readers will follow one family through the course of a day as they march through meadows like ants, dive to the depths like seals, play hide and seek like fireflies, and chatter like raccoons, until, at last, \"... when the house is still and all we can hear are the soft, slow breaths of the ones we love, we're a family of bears.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrator Kevin Barry blends the real with the fantastic in works of art that will make young readers marvel, dream, and lean in for a closer look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Islandport Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934031483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 8.00w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews Fall Preview\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2016 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Laura Freudig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537444565173,"sku":"9781934031483","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5fccd604-d9f6-4bf5-b8e1-2480025777a0.jpg?v=1779169581","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/halfway-wild-9781934031483","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}