{"id":1289,"date":"2013-02-21T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2013-02-21T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:27:00","slug":"julia-donaldson-axel-scheffler-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/02\/julia-donaldson-axel-scheffler-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Donaldson &#038; Axel Scheffler phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freya has discovered the rhyming joy of the queen of picture books Julia Donaldson &#038; the beautiful illustrations of Axel Scheffler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2011\/05\/posy-pip-the-super-scooter-the-little-puddle-010511\/\">(who she got to hear at the Stratford Literary festival when she was only a few weeks old)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It started with the Gruffalo which she demanded be read to her on a daily basis, both at home &#038; nursery. It was the only book she would let us read for about a month &#038; her favourite character without a doubt was the Gruffalo. Bryn also loved this book when younger &#038; was always ready with the line &#8216;don&#8217;t you know there no such thing as a Gruffalo&#8217;. It&#8217;s a book we&#8217;ve read countless times &#038; I imagine more to come. A classic picture book with a clever little hero &#038; a monster with the right balance of fearsome &#038; cuddly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130221-230206.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130221-230206.jpg\" alt=\"20130221-230206.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having a number of the Julia Donaldson &#038; Axel Scheffler books we gradually weaned her off the Gruffalo &#038; now her daily bedtime reads are Zog and Room on the Broom. She easily recognises the illustrative style &#038; likes studying the pictures. Zog is not a favourite of mine, I have never found the story or the rhyming refrain particularly strong. Freya however is a big fan and the highlight seems to be when I bang the page as Zog crashes into a tree. <\/p>\n<p>Room on the Broom is a spectacular hit &#038; is a favourite of the rest of the family too. Having recently been to a few storytelling sessions I was inspired to add a few props to the story which has been a great success (although tracking down all the toys at bedtime can be a tad fraught). She loves making the toy puppy bound across the page &#038; shouting out &#8216;mines&#8217; when we get to the phrase &#8216;Buzz of that&#8217;s my witch&#8217;. This is a lovely simple tale of friendship with the opportunity to shout &#8216;whoosh&#8217; every couple of pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130221-224302.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130221-224302.jpg\" alt=\"20130221-224302.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freya has discovered the rhyming joy of the queen of picture books Julia Donaldson &#038; the beautiful illustrations of Axel Scheffler (who she got to hear at the Stratford Literary festival when she was only a few weeks old) It started with the Gruffalo which she demanded be read to her on a daily basis, [&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":[8,9],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freya","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","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=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}