{"id":1051,"date":"2011-06-04T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/07\/blue-chameleon-by-emily-gravett\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:59:26","slug":"blue-chameleon-by-emily-gravett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/06\/blue-chameleon-by-emily-gravett\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1053 aligncenter\" title=\"Freya &amp; Blue Chameleon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0806-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Freya &amp; Blue Chameleon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0806-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0806.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While at Hay I treated Freya to an Emily Gravett book, Blue Chameleon (was more a treat for me to be perfectly honest) I absolutely love Emily Gravett books, the illustrations are beautiful with a great sense of humour &amp; honesty.<br \/>\nBlue Chameleon tells the tale of a chameleon trying to make friends by copying objects &amp; animals he meets, but his efforts fail until the end where he meets a colourful chameleon. A joyous bright pattern filled ending.<\/p>\n<p>I was really impressed that the book was able to convey the chameleons emotions through such limited text &amp; simple illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>While Freya was not completely captivated by this book her big brother however found it lots of fun. He decided to try &amp; be like the chameleon &amp; copy the different objects &amp; animals. He particularly liked being a boot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1054\" title=\"Brown page from Blue Chameleon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0809-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brown page from Blue Chameleon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0809-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0809.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0803.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1055\" title=\"Bryn being a boot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0803-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0803-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0803.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at Hay I treated Freya to an Emily Gravett book, Blue Chameleon (was more a treat for me to be perfectly honest) I absolutely love Emily Gravett books, the illustrations are beautiful with a great sense of humour &amp; honesty. Blue Chameleon tells the tale of a chameleon trying to make friends by copying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freya","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}