{"id":1262,"date":"2012-11-16T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2013-01-17T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:04:46","slug":"knight-night-by-owen-davy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2012\/11\/knight-night-by-owen-davy\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Night by Owen Davy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/2012\/jun\/13\/knight-night-owen-davy-review\">Guardian Family Review section<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20111115-214514.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20111115-214514.jpg\" alt=\"20111115-214514.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI absolutely love this picture book; stylish, beautiful, fantastically funny and perfect for bedtime.<\/p>\n<p>The book depicts a bedtime routine in a truly knightly fashion. The illustrations combine the mundane with the fantastical as we follow a little boy&#8217;s journey to bed. It begins in a hallway which turns into a forest, while a bath becomes a lake full of wondrous sea creatures &#038; the family pet is apparently a three-headed dragon. The story perfectly captures the joy of imaginative play which I think appeals to Bryn.<\/p>\n<p>I found it a charming book which made me smile. My favourite illustration shows the little boy with a colander on his head grasping his toy horse. Bryn chuckled at &#8220;lights out&#8221;, a double page spread in black paper with the faint outline of the knight.<\/p>\n<p>With its retro illustrations and beautiful colour palette, this is one I enjoy even more than Bryn. An outstanding picture book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the Guardian Family Review section I absolutely love this picture book; stylish, beautiful, fantastically funny and perfect for bedtime. The book depicts a bedtime routine in a truly knightly fashion. The illustrations combine the mundane with the fantastical as we follow a little boy&#8217;s journey to [&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-1262","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\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}