{"id":375718,"date":"2026-04-04T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/loops\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:53:31","slug":"loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/loops\/","title":{"rendered":"Loops"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><strong>From Caldecott Honor\u2013 and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor\u2013winning author-illustrator Jashar Awan comes a hilarious and \u201cconfidence-boosting\u201d (<\/strong><strong><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/strong><strong>, starred review) picture book about the perseverance and positive self-talk needed to learn to tie your shoelaces!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This big kid is wearing his first pair of big-kid shoes, the kind with laces! Even though they\u2019re a little on the roomy side\u2014shoes to grow into, of course\u2014he knows he can take care of them. Except they keep falling off!<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, he\u2019ll just tie them up again, because he knows how to tie those loops! But wait a second, where did that darn shoe go?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is ever truly easy when you\u2019re just starting something new; but, just like with any stage in childhood, whether it\u2019s making your first steps, or going down the really big slide, with persistence, doing anything scary or overwhelming quickly becomes a piece of cake! And before you know it, you\u2019re a BIG KID!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":264900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidsfiction"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375719,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375718\/revisions\/375719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabookscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}