{"id":17782,"date":"2022-10-05T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=17782"},"modified":"2022-10-05T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T02:14:22","slug":"searching-for-cicadas-by-lesley-gibbes-and-judy-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/searching-for-cicadas-by-lesley-gibbes-and-judy-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes and Judy Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. This one is fantastic! <strong>Searching for Cicadas<\/strong> by Lesley Gibbes (author) and Judy Watson (illustrator) tells the story of a grandparent and grandchild and their love of searching for and listing to cicadas. The book is set in Australia and features excellent illustrations of Australian species like Double Drummers, Floury Bakers, and Green Grocers. If you&#8217;re a library in the New South Wales area or a parent with a kid who loves cicadas, you should own this book. I live in the United States, and I had to import it. Worth every penny. The illustration is accurate and stylish and unique &#8212; a fantastic color palate. <\/p>\n<p>The front cover:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Searching-for-Cicadas.jpg\" alt=\"Searching for Cicadas\" width=\"800\" height=\"860\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Searching-for-Cicadas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Searching-for-Cicadas-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Searching-for-Cicadas-768x826.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside illustrations:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Inside-Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Inside-Book.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Inside-Book-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Inside-Book-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. This one is fantastic! Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes (author) and Judy Watson (illustrator) tells the story of a grandparent and grandchild and their love of searching for and listing to cicadas. The book is set in Australia and features excellent illustrations of Australian species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}