{"id":1148,"date":"2011-12-26T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:26:22","slug":"books-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/12\/books-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I want"},"content":{"rendered":"

An indulgent post (like all the rest), but here are some picture books which I am just waiting for an excuse to buy, having just missed the perfect opportunity – Christmas
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\nHaunted House by Jan Pienkowski – annoyed with myself that I didn’t get this for Halloween. This was the first pop up book I remember reading, it’s wasn’t part of the general library collection but you had to request it from the librarian who stored to behind her desk. I thought it was fantastic & was always fascinated at how much can be achieved with just paper in creating such engagement & wonder. While I have come across some really innovative pop up books recently there is a nostalgia for this classic I can’t shake.
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\nFollow the Line by Laura Ljungkvist – I got distracted one day by the Tate museum bookshop online & fell in love with this title. Recently I had the opportunity to flick through the pages & was happy that it lived up to expectation. I can see it opening up so much discussion & opportunities for imagination.
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\nThe High Street by Alice Melvin – as shopping is one of my favourite pastime this seems the perfect book to share that experience with. The illustrations have a vintage feel & beautiful colour palette that I find really appealing
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The Happy LittleYellow Box by David Carter – this is such a simple idea but so well executed. I worry it might be lost on a small child whereas I know I would give it justice.The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm published by Taschen – I adore fairy tales & this stunning edition has such a variety of illustration, the perfect combination for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An indulgent post (like all the rest), but here are some picture books which I am just waiting for an excuse to buy, having just missed the perfect opportunity – Christmas Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski – annoyed with myself that I didn’t get this for Halloween. This was the first pop up book I […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}