{"id":1305,"date":"2013-03-08T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-03-08T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:52:47","slug":"king-of-space-by-johnny-duddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/03\/king-of-space-by-johnny-duddle\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Space by Jonny Duddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130308-203625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130308-203625.jpg\" alt=\"20130308-203625.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA little boy with big plans, space ships, dung blasters, floating space cows, robots &#038; tasty sounding &#8216;Choco-goo&#8217; , this book has it all.<\/p>\n<p>The King of Space tells the tale of Rex, &#8216;Rex might look little, but he has big plans that will take him to the furthest reaches of space.&#8217; With his army of &#8216;warbots&#8217; Rex is on a mission to become King of Space.<\/p>\n<p>I love the cinematic nature of this book with its rich illustrations &#038; a stunning four page spread. I also loved the character of Rex, his aspiration, determination &#038; his awkwardness around Princess Kooki. The highlight however for me was Rex&#8217;s mum saving the day, as my boy is quickly growing up (starting to read &#038; write by himself) it&#8217;s nice to have a reminder that Mum&#8217;s still here to help. <\/p>\n<p>Bryn tells me he loves this book especially the pictures &#038; his favourite page is when Rex has been given lines as a punishment at school, as usual Rex is not doing as he&#8217;s told. After only a few readings he has pretty much memorised the story &#038; is enjoying retelling it to us with his sister taking on the role of a Moog. Now we just need to find some wall space for the glossy &#8216;warbot&#8217; poster that comes with the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130308-203717.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130308-203717.jpg\" alt=\"20130308-203717.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: We received our copy of &#8216;King of Space&#8217; from the publisher for review. Our opinions are our own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy with big plans, space ships, dung blasters, floating space cows, robots &#038; tasty sounding &#8216;Choco-goo&#8217; , this book has it all. The King of Space tells the tale of Rex, &#8216;Rex might look little, but he has big plans that will take him to the furthest reaches of space.&#8217; With his army [&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":[3,8,9],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","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\/1305","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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}