{"id":2819,"date":"2025-04-04T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:28:26","slug":"vashti-harrison-big-honors-for-a-great-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Vashti Harrison: Big Honors for a Great Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vashti-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2820 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vashti-headshot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vashti-headshot-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American writer, illustrator and filmmaker Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of <em>Big<\/em>, winner of the 2024 Caldecott Medal, both the Coretta Scott King Book Award Author and Book Award Illustrator Honor, and a National Book Award finalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vashtiharrison.com\/about-2\"><em>Big<\/em> traces a child\u2019s journey<\/a> to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. I encourage you to share this wonderful book and its powerful ending with your children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She&#8217;ll appear in town as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.columbuslibrary.org\/event\/12878903\">Columbus Metropolitan Library\u2019s Authors at the Library on Saturday, April 5 in the Main Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2357\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2819-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3\">https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2819-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2025-4-1-Vashti_Harrison.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American writer, illustrator and filmmaker Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, winner of the 2024 Caldecott Medal, both the Coretta Scott King Book Award Author and Book Award Illustrator Honor, and a National Book Award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}