{"id":1258,"date":"2012-11-16T21:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:21:53","slug":"rapunzel-by-jutta-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2012\/11\/rapunzel-by-jutta-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapunzel by Jutta Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &amp; I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/2012\/apr\/11\/review-rapunzel-ash-brothers-grimm\">Guardian Family Reviews section <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130117-151304.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130117-151304.jpg\" alt=\"20130117-151304.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A revised edition of the classic fairytale of Rapunzel, who is trapped in a tower by an evil witch but, after much heartache, finally gets her happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>Bryn&#8217;s initial response was that it was &#8220;not a nice story&#8221; as he didn&#8217;t like the &#8220;mean&#8221; witch. I had to agree having forgotten how many cruel incidents there are throughout the story: parents losing their baby daughter, Rapunzel trapped in the tower, the Prince being blinded and Rapunzel deserted in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Bryn felt the high point of the story was when the Prince fell from the tower and &#8220;the thorns pierced his eyes and made him blind&#8221; as this reminded him of the nursery rhyme &#8216;Three Blind Mice&#8217;. The high point of this book for me was the illustrations, they are rich, detailed &amp; sumptuous.<\/p>\n<p>The book has some fabulous double paged spreads, Bryn and I enjoyed pouring over them admiring the detail and spotting animals.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed the book although it&#8217;s not a story that Bryn has asked for again, perhaps he may enjoy it more as he gets older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &amp; I wrote for the Guardian Family Reviews section A revised edition of the classic fairytale of Rapunzel, who is trapped in a tower by an evil witch but, after much heartache, finally gets her happy ending. Bryn&#8217;s initial response was that it was &#8220;not a nice story&#8221; as he [&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":[3,28],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-guardian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}