{"id":5348,"date":"2020-04-20T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2020-04-20T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:04:59","slug":"michelle-obama-to-read-classic-childrens-books-in-live-streaming-pbs-kids-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/michelle-obama-to-read-classic-childrens-books-in-live-streaming-pbs-kids-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama To Read Classic Children\u2019s Books In Live-Streaming PBS Kids Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5350\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michelle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michelle.png 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michelle-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michelle-768x418.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMondays With Michelle Obama\u201d is a new live-streaming series where the former First Lady will read a handful of her favorite children\u2019s picture books for the kids at home.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginning today at noon ET and ending on the Monday of May 11th, Obama\u2019s readings will be live-streamed on multiple platforms: PBS Kids\u2019 Facebook page, YouTube, and on Penguin Random House\u2019s Facebook page. The videos will remain on-demand for later viewing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAs a little kid, I loved to read aloud,\u201d said Michelle Obama in a statement. \u201cAnd when I became a parent, I found such joy in sharing the magic of storytelling with my own children \u2014 and then later, as First Lady, with kids everywhere.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is the official live-stream reading schedule: Obama will read \u201cThe Gruffalo\u201d (April 20), \u201cThere\u2019s a Dragon in Your Book\u201d (April 27), \u201cMiss Maple\u2019s Seeds\u201d (May 4), and \u201cThe Very Hungry Caterpillar\u201d (May 11).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama has joined forces with Penguin Young Readers, Random House Children\u2019s Books, and PBS Kids for this project. Penguin Random House will also have a collection of resources and activities for each book that Obama reads, which can be found at readtogetherbetogether.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAt this time when so many families are under so much stress, I\u2019m excited to give kids a chance to practice their reading and hear some wonderful stories (and to give parents and caretakers a much-needed break),\u201d said Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe  id=\"_ytid_52793\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyhgubvRYF4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMondays With Michelle Obama\u201d is a new live-streaming series where the former First Lady will read a handful of her favorite children\u2019s picture books for the kids at home.\u00a0 Beginning today at noon ET and ending on the Monday of May 11th, Obama\u2019s readings will be live-streamed on multiple platforms: PBS Kids\u2019 Facebook page, YouTube, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[32,31,63,51],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-books","tag-featured","tag-michelle-obama","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}