{"id":6106,"date":"2011-01-26T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2011-01-26T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:58:02","slug":"artie-knapp-childrens-book-announcement-and-online-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/01\/26\/artie-knapp-childrens-book-announcement-and-online-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Artie Knapp Children&#8217;s Book Announcement and Online Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MB-COVERKnapp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6107\" title=\"MB-COVERKnapp\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MB-COVERKnapp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MB-COVERKnapp.jpg 700w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MB-COVERKnapp-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/storybooks\/the-artie-knapp-library\/\">Artie Knapp<\/a> writes marvelous, cheerful and gently humorous tales for children.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been offering his stories to this site for years and I always look forward to a new one.\u00a0 Knapp&#8217;s latest accomplishment is an illustrated book of stories published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightybook.com\/index.html\">Mighty Book, Inc.<\/a> and illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemotz.com\/\">Mike Motz<\/a>. The stories included were previously published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nieonline.com\/detroit\/parents.cfm\">Detroit Free Press\/Yak&#8217;s Corner<\/a>.\u00a0 It will be available soon and I&#8217;ll post an update when it hits the shelves!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the upcoming print collection, Knapp has begun offering his children&#8217;s stories through Mighty Book&#8217;s web site<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightybook.com\/story_books.html\"><\/a>.\u00a0 His recent story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightybook.com\/MightyBook_free\/books\/stuttering_stan\/stuttering_stan.html\"><em>Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand<\/em>, is available as an animated read-aloud\/read-along<\/a> that is a perfect way to introduce your kids to the Artie Knapp story universe.\u00a0 I am proud to say that I produced the audio and narration for the read-along and I think Mighty Book has done a wonderful job creating an interface for children.<\/p>\n<p>It has also won some recent awards, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speech-language-therapy.com\/interesting2011.htm\">Speech Woman&#8217;s Speech-Language Pathology Site of the Month Award for January 2011<\/a> and the Stop, Think, &amp; Speak Award, which was a student nominated award from Penn State University.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stuttering-Takes-Stand-Artie-Knapp\/dp\/0982167709\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1296066374&amp;sr=1-1\">buy <em>Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightybook.com\/index.html\">Mighty Book<\/a> will soon publish more Knapp stories, including <em>The Wasp and the Canary<\/em>, <em>The Hummingbird Who Chewed Bubblegum<\/em>, and <em>There\u2019s a Crocodile in Our Pickle Jar<\/em><strong>, <\/strong>as fully illustrated Flash-animated books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artie Knapp writes marvelous, cheerful and gently humorous tales for children.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been offering his stories to this site for years and I always look forward to a new one.\u00a0 Knapp&#8217;s latest accomplishment is an illustrated book of stories published by Mighty Book, Inc. and illustrated by Mike Motz. The stories included were previously published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,236,77],"tags":[65,2500,366,2481,1608,128,69,1607,237,1610,473,1609],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publishing","category-childrens-books","category-childrens-stories","tag-artie-knapp","tag-books","tag-children","tag-childrens-stories","tag-detroit-free-press","tag-illustrated","tag-kids","tag-mighty-book","tag-picture-book","tag-stuttering-stan-takes-a-stand","tag-tales","tag-yaks-corner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}