{"id":5505,"date":"2020-06-23T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:42:58","slug":"top-seller-antiracist-baby-to-be-released-as-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/top-seller-antiracist-baby-to-be-released-as-picture-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seller &#8216;Antiracist Baby&#8217; to be released as picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5506\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5506\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP20170451620519-e1592930531484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This cover image released by Kokila shows \u201cAntiracist Baby\u201d by Ibram X. Kendi, with illustrations by Ashley Lukashevsky. A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi\u2019s \u201cAntiracist Baby,\u201d one of the country\u2019s top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. (Kokila via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; one of the country&#8217;s top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Antiracist Baby&#8221; went on sale this week as a board book and has been part of a wave of works about race and racism that have been selling strongly as protests against Floyd&#8217;s death at the hands of Minneapolis police spread worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two other Kendi books are current bestsellers, &#8220;How To Be an Antiracist&#8221; and &#8220;Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,&#8221; winner of the National Book Award in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The picture book of &#8220;Antiracist Baby&#8221; will feature illustrations by Ashley Lukashevsky, Penguin Young Readers announced Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new edition is being published by the Penguin imprint Kokila.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; one of the country&#8217;s top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. &#8220;Antiracist Baby&#8221; went on sale this week as a board book and has been part of a wave of works about race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[995,694,32,31,234],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-antiracist-baby","tag-associated-press","tag-books","tag-featured","tag-jaro-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}