{"id":1062,"date":"2011-07-06T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/07\/cave-baby-by-julia-donaldson-illustrated-by-emily-gravett\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T22:06:21","slug":"cave-baby-by-julia-donaldson-illustrated-by-emily-gravett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/07\/cave-baby-by-julia-donaldson-illustrated-by-emily-gravett\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson illustrated by Emily Gravett"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were pleased to hear that Julia Donaldson is the new Children’s Laureate, we really enjoy her stories & have a number of her books. They have been read to Bryn many many times. Some of his favourite include Tiddler, Smartest Giant in Town, Charlie Cooks Favourite Books & of course the Gruffalo.<\/p>\n

I read Cave Baby to Freya which has Donaldson’s trademark lyrical rhyming text. The illustrations were done by Emily Gravett (see previous post) and are beautiful. The tale is of a little baby who having discovered a paintbrush adds to the painting on the cave only to be told off by his mother. At night he is taken by a mammoth & paints his cave walls. The baby covers the walls in brightly coloured fantastical pictures a contrast to his mothers realistic monochrome pictures.<\/p>\n

I especially liked the night time illustrations as the colours were rich & help depict the fear & wonder of the baby. For me the story was a good reminder of painting without any rules & just enjoying the colours & shapes, something I hope both son & daughter will do.<\/p>\n

While it is a lovely read this however is not one of my favourites. I think I had high expectations from this collaboration and for me it lacked some of the wit & musicality of the other books. <\/p>\n

I am looking forward to the work of the new laureate & was pleased to see her back the campaign for libraries. Her latest book ‘The Highway Rat’ is already on our wish list.<\/p>\n

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We were pleased to hear that Julia Donaldson is the new Children’s Laureate, we really enjoy her stories & have a number of her books. They have been read to Bryn many many times. Some of his favourite include Tiddler, Smartest Giant in Town, Charlie Cooks Favourite Books & of course the Gruffalo. I read […]<\/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-1062","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\/1062","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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}