{"id":1426,"date":"2013-07-19T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-07-21T22:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T22:36:27","slug":"dear-zoo-by-rod-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/07\/dear-zoo-by-rod-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130719-164239.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130719-164239.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-164239.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe were recently sent a fun new book to review, Dear Zoo Spin and Say.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Zoo has been staple reading in our house. Our copy is a supersize edition which adds an extra element of fun to this perfect lift the flap book.<\/p>\n<p>In Dear Zoo Spin and Say the fun element are two spinners which can be used to help teach simple concepts, first words, numbers, different types of animals etc. &#8220;The sturdy pages are packed with everyone&#8217;s favourite animal friends from DEAR ZOO, as well as new wild animals and pets, and there&#8217;s a different question on every spread. How many? Who&#8217;s that animal? What colour? Simply spin the wheel, point and say!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130719-165102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130719-165102.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-165102.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFreya was very keen on spinning the wheels, perhaps a little too enthusiastically at times, and she particularly enjoyed spotting the animals. Her vocabulary is growing daily and is always keen to spot things she recognises, spinning the wheel provided a fun alternative to the more traditional spotting books.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun book to share with Freya especially listening to her discover &#038; sound out new words as well as her growing confidence in repeating her numbers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. I was not asked to write this post, nor was I given any money for doing so, and the review represents my own honest opinion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were recently sent a fun new book to review, Dear Zoo Spin and Say. Dear Zoo has been staple reading in our house. Our copy is a supersize edition which adds an extra element of fun to this perfect lift the flap book. In Dear Zoo Spin and Say the fun element are two [&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],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}