{"id":1081,"date":"2011-07-08T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2011-07-13T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:21:42","slug":"otto-the-book-bear-by-katie-cleminson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/07\/otto-the-book-bear-by-katie-cleminson\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otto the Book Bear is a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110713-052136.jpg\" alt=\"20110713-052136.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/> tale of a bear from a book who gets left behind in a house move, after wondering around the city he finds confort &amp; friends at the public library.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was excited to buy this after having read a <a title=\"Otto the Book Bear review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarymice.com\/2011\/07\/otto-book-bear.html\" target=\"_blank\">great review <strong>(Library Mice)<\/strong><\/a> &amp; a little about it&#8217;s creation on the <strong>authors <\/strong><a title=\"Katie Cleminson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.katiecleminson.com\/behindthescenes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>site<\/strong>,<\/a> after such investment I had high hopes and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. The simple illustration with muted colours provide a gentle background to the heartwarming tale. I have to confess after reading the Box of Tricks I was expecting a similar style of illustration &amp; my favourite page is the bear looking out of the window in the rain. Bryn liked the page when the bear sees the light in the library, the point where the bear senses some hope is a welcome contrast to the busy city.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110713-052241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"Otto the book bear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110713-052241.jpg\" alt=\"20110713-052241.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otto the Book Bear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seeing the characters out of the book playing is such a lovely idea, reminding me of a <a title=\"Playing by the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playingbythebook.net\/2011\/06\/29\/some-books-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">fun activity over on blog &#8216;<strong>Playing by the Book&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> I think we invest a lot in the characters within the stories so the idea of them popping out is charming, much like the idea of toys coming to life when not being played with. I also loved the idea of the characters from the books reading other stories, I wonder if they were ever tempted to swap places.<\/p>\n<p>The love of books &amp; stories shines throughout this book. I imagine it will become a firm favourite in this house.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1087\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1087\" title=\"Pitts River Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pitts River Museum Oxford\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone-1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryn&#39;s bear on an outing while Bryn slept<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>All illustrations\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a9 Katie Cleminson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto the Book Bear is a tale of a bear from a book who gets left behind in a house move, after wondering around the city he finds confort &amp; friends at the public library. &nbsp; I was excited to buy this after having read a great review (Library Mice) &amp; a little about it&#8217;s [&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":[3,8,9],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","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\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}