{"id":1071,"date":"2011-06-25T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-06-25T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T21:42:28","slug":"blue-kangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/06\/blue-kangaroo\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110625-102639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110625-102639.jpg\" alt=\"20110625-102639.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve been reading &#8216;I&#8217;ll show you blue kangaroo&#8217;, about a little girl, Lily, who doesn&#8217;t do as she&#8217;s told and likes to show off, leaving her much loved stuffed toy to watch. It&#8217;s only after nearly losing her beloved Blue Kangaroo that Lily finally begins to listen.<\/p>\n<p>What I really liked about the book is the illustrations, they are done in such a bright vibrant pallet of colours providing a real sense of warmth &#038; energy. The illustrations start where the text ends in terms of depicting lily&#8217;s actions &#038; subsequent consequences. I developed a real fondness for Lily despite her bad behaviour &#038; I think a large part of that is due to the pictures, she looks very sweet with her colour co-ordinated bow.<\/p>\n<p>When I read this to Freya she&#8217;s been very animated, lots of cooing &#038; smiling. Bryn has enjoyed it too especially studying the pictures to see what chaos Lily is creating. While I could empathise with the adults who are shown continually moving the baby out of harms ways.<\/p>\n<p>I have already bought another story about Lily &#038; her kangaroo, &#8216;I Love You, Blue Kangaroo&#8217; which we are enjoying just as much.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1061\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who will be Freya's Blue Kangaroo<\/p><\/div><a\n\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110625-102845.jpg\" title=\"What will be Freya's Blue Kangaroo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110625-102845.jpg\" alt=\"20110625-102845.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;ve been reading &#8216;I&#8217;ll show you blue kangaroo&#8217;, about a little girl, Lily, who doesn&#8217;t do as she&#8217;s told and likes to show off, leaving her much loved stuffed toy to watch. It&#8217;s only after nearly losing her beloved Blue Kangaroo that Lily finally begins to listen. What I really liked about the [&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],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}