{"id":1097,"date":"2011-07-26T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2011-09-14T21:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:42:47","slug":"shoe-baby-by-joyce-dunbar-illustrated-by-polly-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/07\/shoe-baby-by-joyce-dunbar-illustrated-by-polly-dunbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Baby by Joyce Dunbar illustrated by Polly Dunbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105523.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105523.jpg\" alt=\"20110726-105523.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI love Shoe Baby, we&#8217;ve read this to Bryn since he was a baby &#038; at 3.5 continues to enjoy it as I hope Freya will. Her initial reaction has been plenty of smiles (something she excels at) Personally I think some of the enjoyment is from the lyrical text &#038; the mouth shape as you read the repeated line &#8216;How do you do&#8217;. The illustration of the baby is also a delight to look at with his rosy red cheeks, big smile &#038; big head. <\/p>\n<p>The story is of a baby&#8217;s adventure flying in a shoe meeting birds, animals from the zoo and even a  king &#038; queen. The baby &#038; the shoe are eventually found by the parents, I love the last page of the family of three beaming surrounded by the toys the baby met on his adventures (I am also taken with the mother&#8217;s skirt)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105620.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105620.jpg\" alt=\"20110726-105620.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I adore the illustrations in the book with contrasting patterns &#038; textures, mix of styles, beautiful colour palette &#038; humour, it&#8217;s a real visual delight. The theme of shoes runs throughout the pictures as you can spot some the characters wearing very stylish boots, including a pink cockatoo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great read aloud story with sing song text, the opportunity to do some dramatic sobbing as well as beautiful illustrations to look at.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105817.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110726-105817.jpg\" alt=\"20110726-105817.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do you do?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>All illustrations  \u00c2\u00a9 Polly Dunbar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Shoe Baby, we&#8217;ve read this to Bryn since he was a baby &#038; at 3.5 continues to enjoy it as I hope Freya will. Her initial reaction has been plenty of smiles (something she excels at) Personally I think some of the enjoyment is from the lyrical text &#038; the mouth shape as [&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":[3,8,9,12],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-freya","tag-home","tag-walker-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","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=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}