{"id":1482,"date":"2013-10-18T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2013-10-18T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T13:44:09","slug":"hilda-and-the-midnight-giant-by-luke-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/10\/hilda-and-the-midnight-giant-by-luke-pearson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is I review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/2013\/oct\/18\/family-review-hilda-midnight-giant-luke-pearson\">Guardian Family reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131018-144543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131018-144543.jpg\" alt=\"20131018-144543.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhenever I ask Bryn about this book his eyes get bigger and become shiny with excitement as he races to tell me all about Hilda, the little people and his favourites &#8211; the giants.<br \/>\nHilda and the Midnight Giant is a stunning graphic novel, featuring a feisty blue haired heroine and a variety of strange wondrous creatures. Tiny elves are trying to evict Hilda and her mum from their home; it&#8217;s up to Hilda to try and make peace with them. In the meantime Hilda also befriends a giant who is all alone looking for his mate. The humour of the extreme worlds of miniature and gigantic is cleverly woven into an thrilling adventure.<br \/>\nBoth Bryn and I both really enjoyed this book which works on lots of different levels. While he found it tricky at times to know which section of the page I was reading he loved there were so many amazing pictures to look at. He was also very taken with end pages which show a range of different giants, inspiring him to draw his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131018-145124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131018-145124.jpg\" alt=\"20131018-145124.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is I review Bryn &#038; I wrote for the Guardian Family reviews Whenever I ask Bryn about this book his eyes get bigger and become shiny with excitement as he races to tell me all about Hilda, the little people and his favourites &#8211; the giants. Hilda and the Midnight Giant is a stunning [&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-1482","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\/1482","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=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}