{"id":11203,"date":"2022-08-10T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=11203"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:55:44","slug":"mu%cc%95o%cc%a3%cc%95n-thi%cc%a3-van-wins-margaret-wise-brown-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/mu%cc%95o%cc%a3%cc%95n-thi%cc%a3-van-wins-margaret-wise-brown-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Mu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n Thi\u0323 V\u0103n Wins Margaret Wise Brown Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MWB-medal.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Wise Brown Prize medal\" width=\"325\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MWB-medal.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MWB-medal-243x250.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>\n<span class=\"edgtf-dropcaps edgtf-normal\" style=\"color: #7566a0\">\n\tH<\/span>ollins has honored Vietnamese author Mu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n Thi\u0323 V\u0103n as the winner of the seventh annual Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children\u2019s Literature.<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n received an engraved medal and a $1,000 cash prize for <em>Wishes<\/em>, illustrated by Victo Ngai and published by Orchard Books. Inspired by events in the author\u2019s life, <em>Wishes<\/em> is the story of a Vietnamese family\u2019s search for a new home on the other side of the world and how that impacts one of the family\u2019s youngest members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n Thi\u0323 V\u0103n takes the reader on a heart-wrenching journey, from leaving the familiarity of home to navigating the perils of an ocean voyage to finally arriving at a place of hope and new beginnings,\u201d stated the judges for this year\u2019s prize.<\/p>\n<p>Hollins established the Margaret Wise Brown Prize as a way to pay tribute to one of its best-known alumnae and one of America\u2019s most beloved children\u2019s authors. The cash prizes are made possible by an endowed fund created by James Rockefeller, Brown\u2019s fianc\u00e9 at the time of her death. It is one of the few children\u2019s book awards that has a cash prize attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ollins has honored Vietnamese author Mu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n Thi\u0323 V\u0103n as the winner of the seventh annual Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children\u2019s Literature. Mu\u0315o\u0323\u0315n received an engraved medal and a $1,000 cash prize for Wishes, illustrated by Victo Ngai and published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,130],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-11203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-homepage-side","tag-summer-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}