{"id":482112,"date":"2026-10-01T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:36:09","slug":"award-winning-author-janay-brown-wood-visits-valley-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482112\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning author Janay Brown-Wood visits Valley library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times bestselling children&#8217;s author Janay Brown-Wood returned to her roots this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790897769_628_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 1, 2026 10:26PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; New York Times bestselling children&#8217;s author <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janaybrownwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Janay Brown-Wood<\/a> returned to her roots this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She stopped by Sunnyside Library to share her new book with local kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janaybrownwood.com\/books\/acacia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale<\/a>&#8220;, a retelling of the classic fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We spoke to her about the inspiration behind her more than 30 books and the importance of representation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Times bestselling children&#8217;s author Janay Brown-Wood returned to her roots this past weekend. Thursday, October 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[188941,112,114,113,294],"class_list":["post-482112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-188941","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}