{"id":89,"date":"2014-04-07T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-11-08T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:48:09","slug":"kiki-nakamura-koyama-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2014\/04\/07\/kiki-nakamura-koyama-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiki Nakamura-Koyama &#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Red Tree<\/i> by Shaun Tan is a picture book&#8211; but don&#8217;t under estimate the world within! Tan is able to capture the attention of any reader by the ornate detailed illustrations. The phenomenal pictures in the book engulf you in a sea of emotions and the use of selective words fully illuminate the story. A nice vacation for a student&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The story itself is about a young girl who wakes up in the morning &#8220;with nothing to look forward to.&#8221; Tan continues the story by dragging the readers into a progressively darker world. However there are illustrations throughout the book that foreshadow hope. As the foreshadow suggests, there is a certain &#8220;light at the end of the tunnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Tree is a lovely book that provides insight into how we all feel during finals week. Feeling overwhelmed? Check out <i>The Red Tree <\/i>on the fifth floor of Hubbard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Tree by Shaun Tan is a picture book&#8211; but don&#8217;t under estimate the world within! Tan is able to capture the attention of any reader by the ornate detailed illustrations. The phenomenal pictures in the book engulf you in a sea of emotions and the use of selective words fully illuminate the story. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2014\/04\/07\/kiki-nakamura-koyama-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kiki Nakamura-Koyama &#8217;17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}