{"id":5813,"date":"2022-12-30T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2024-01-13T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:35:04","slug":"4-great-kids-books-to-read-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/blog\/4-great-kids-books-to-read-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"4 Great Kids Books to Read in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new year means new books! Enjoy these recommendations as we look ahead to a wonderful 2023&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-5814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27413%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20600%20413%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27413%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1-200x138.png 200w, https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1-400x275.png 400w, https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1-600x413.png 600w, https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blog-post-22-1.png 800w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jEqnya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Very Good Hats<\/a> by Emma Straub<\/strong>. <span class=\"s1\">Can turtles, stuffed bears, houses and pots wear hats? Absolutely. Readers are invited to put on their thinking caps and create all sorts of fun hats for various creatures. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Recommended for infants<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jv7pd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Best Worst Day Ever<\/a> by Mark Batterson<\/strong>. <span class=\"s1\">Bert is having the absolute worst day ever until he takes a walk with his dad. A great book about balancing frustrations and expectations.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Recommended for toddlers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3IbJY2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret Explorers and the Desert Disappearance<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>by SJ King<\/strong>. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Join the Secret Explorers, specialized brainiacs, who travel through the desert on a\u00a0\u00a0fact-filled fictional adventure. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Recommend for elementary schoolers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3G20u2N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels<\/a> by Beth Lincoln<\/strong>. <span class=\"s1\">Join Shenanigan Swift and her eccentric family in a wild <\/span><span class=\"s2\">treasure hunt and murder mystery. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Recommend for tweens\/teens.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year means new books! Enjoy these recommendations as we look ahead to a wonderful 2023&#8230; Very Good Hats by Emma Straub. Can turtles, stuffed bears, houses and pots wear hats? Absolutely. Readers are invited to put on their thinking caps and create all sorts of fun hats for various creatures. Recommended for infants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[114],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}