{"id":5736,"date":"2009-05-06T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2009-05-06T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:11:49","slug":"jet-alum-cristy-burne-wins-award-for-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/jet-alum-cristy-burne-wins-award-for-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Cristy Burne wins award for children&#8217;s literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.franceslincoln.com\/Diverse%20Voices\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5738\" title=\"cristyburne\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cristyburne.jpg\" alt=\"cristyburne\" width=\"209\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cristyburne.jpg 475w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cristyburne-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cristy Burne<\/a> (Hyogo-ken, Kawanishi-shi, 1998-2000)<\/strong>, author of the children&#8217;s book <em><strong>Takeshita Demons<\/strong><\/em>, recently won the first <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.franceslincoln.com\/Diverse%20Voices\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Book Bward<\/a><\/strong>, an award that aims to celebrate cultural diversity in children&#8217;s literature.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Takeshita Demons<\/strong><\/em>, set to be published next year, is based on the adventures of a Japanese schoolgirl named Miku.\u00a0 Cristy says, &#8220;After spending two years as an ALT and a third working in a Japanese company, you can guess that much of my inspiration comes from the JET experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Cristy, the award and her work, check out her blog (<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com<\/a>) or contact her directly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.franceslincoln.com\/Diverse%20Voices\" target=\"_blank\">Go to the award website to see more photos<\/a> from the awards ceremony held this past Thursday in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristy Burne (Hyogo-ken, Kawanishi-shi, 1998-2000), author of the children&#8217;s book Takeshita Demons, recently won the first Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Book Bward, an award that aims to celebrate cultural diversity in children&#8217;s literature. Takeshita Demons, set to be published next year, is based on the adventures of a Japanese schoolgirl named Miku.\u00a0 Cristy says, &#8220;After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,40,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}