{"id":1260,"date":"2012-11-16T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2013-01-17T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:09:13","slug":"jack-and-the-baked-beanstalk-by-colin-stimpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2012\/11\/jack-and-the-baked-beanstalk-by-colin-stimpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack and the Baked Beanstalk by Colin Stimpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/2012\/may\/18\/jack-baked-beanstalk-colin-stimpson-review\">Guardian Family Review section<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130117-150840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130117-150840.jpg\" alt=\"20130117-150840.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of laughter while reading this modern retelling of a classic fairytale, &#8220;&#8216;a beanstalk with cans of baked beans!,&#8217; how funny&#8221;, said Bryn.<\/p>\n<p>The story starts with Jack and his mum running a successful burger van, but their fortunes are reversed when a new flyover diverts their customers. As in the traditional tale Jack is entrusted with their &#8220;last few pennies&#8221;. With a self-referring nod to the story Jack knows choosing the &#8220;magic baked beans&#8221; will lead to adventure. Like all good fairy tales this has a happy ending but with a few twists and turns on the journey down the beanstalk.<\/p>\n<p>Bryn was very tickled by the nice giant with a love of cooking although he would have preferred him to be &#8220;eating people and grinding bones to make his bread&#8221;. He also liked the illustrations, especially the giants smart attire.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the luxurious style of illustration and multi-layered story gave this book a cinematic quality. The drawings also captured the scale of the story and my favourite spread was of the giant &#038; Jack sharing a large plate of food.<\/p>\n<p>A fun rich read with both style and substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the Guardian Family Review section There was plenty of laughter while reading this modern retelling of a classic fairytale, &#8220;&#8216;a beanstalk with cans of baked beans!,&#8217; how funny&#8221;, said Bryn. The story starts with Jack and his mum running a successful burger van, but their fortunes [&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-1260","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\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}