{"id":1177,"date":"2012-03-18T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:57:57","slug":"albert-le-blanc-by-nick-butterworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2012\/03\/albert-le-blanc-by-nick-butterworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert le Blanc by Nick Butterworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I took the children out for breakfast, once fed they were content to enveloped in this charming funny tale set in a toy shop. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story of a new addition to the toy shop, a huge white polar bear whom the others feel need cheering up. There are some wonderfully endearing characters who energetically carry the story forwards, their eagerness to please builds &#038; builds waiting for the final crescendo. It&#8217;s a lovely tale showing kind if misguided spirit. The generousity of the story is complimented by the detailed illustrations, including familiar characters from other stories lined up on the toy shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The book made us smile from the start when told to begin at the beginning &#038; then you get to the title page, feeling like we are being let in on the joke. The over exuberance character are wonderfully comical. A truly delightful read.<\/p>\n<p>I have discovered there is another Albert le Blanc book, I am looking forward to tracking it down &#038; seeing what they have been getting up to, it&#8217;s bound to be fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120318-205608.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120318-205608.jpg\" alt=\"20120318-205608.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I took the children out for breakfast, once fed they were content to enveloped in this charming funny tale set in a toy shop. It&#8217;s a story of a new addition to the toy shop, a huge white polar bear whom the others feel need cheering up. There are some wonderfully [&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":[3,7],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","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=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}