{"id":1301,"date":"2013-03-02T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2013-03-02T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:28:59","slug":"stuck-by-oliver-jeffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/03\/stuck-by-oliver-jeffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck by Oliver Jeffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book review Bryn and I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/gallery\/2013\/mar\/01\/family-picture-book-reviews-gallery#\/?picture=404732351&#038;index=6\">Guardian Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130302-222818.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130302-222818.jpg\" alt=\"20130302-222818.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;It all began when Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree&#8230;&#8217; and the story tells the funny, and at times surreal, steps Floyd takes to rescue that kite.<\/p>\n<p>We giggled and laughed throughout reading this book especially at the moments where we were wrong footed. When Floyd gets a ladder to resolve the situation Bryn was expecting him to use it to catapult everything out of the tree, but no Floyd continues on his single-minded path to rescuing his kite.<\/p>\n<p>I found the book a visual treat with surrealism and sophistication making it a quality picture book. The pictures of Floyd holding up ridiculously large things like ships, houses and whales remind me of conversations I&#8217;ve had with Bryn about whether he can put a house on his head.<\/p>\n<p>An epic story packed with humour and ending with a reference to The Italian Job, this is a big hit in our household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book review Bryn and I wrote for the Guardian Family Reviews &#8216;It all began when Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree&#8230;&#8217; and the story tells the funny, and at times surreal, steps Floyd takes to rescue that kite. We giggled and laughed throughout reading this book especially at the moments [&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-1301","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\/1301","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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}