{"id":1696,"date":"2012-02-10T04:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:56:07","slug":"rch-partners-with-national-year-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-partners-with-national-year-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH partners with National Year of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/02\/10\/rch-partners-with-national-year-of-reading\/nyr-logo-web-external\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1697\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/02\/NYR-logo-web-external.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital is delighted to partner with the National Year of Reading as we embark on a hospital-wide celebration of reading and literacy in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia-wide launch of National Year of Reading kicks off on Tuesday 14 February and The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital will celebrate with our own Literature Lovers&#8217; Festival for children and families.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s activities include roving musicians, children\u2019s author visits, surprise guest appearances, word games, installations, performances games and activities and prize give-aways.<\/p>\n<p>Children are invited to join us in Main Street for our Author Hot Seat and ask these authors some curly questions about their books and being a writer for kids.<\/p>\n<p>11am\u00a0 <strong>Felice Arena<\/strong> author of the popular <em>Specky Magee<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p>1.15pm\u00a0 <strong>Michael Wagner<\/strong> creator of the awesome <em>Maxx Rumble<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p>For more information ask an RCH teacher or visit the RCH Education Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wch.org.au\/education\/students.cfm?doc_id=14357\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>National Year of Reading activities at the RCH are presented with the generous support of the State Library of Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations kick off Tuesday 14 February, with activities for staff, patients and families<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}