{"id":1487,"date":"2013-11-01T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2013-11-01T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:24:22","slug":"the-adventures-of-the-owl-and-the-pussycat-by-carol-rumble-illustrated-by-charlotte-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/11\/the-adventures-of-the-owl-and-the-pussycat-by-carol-rumble-illustrated-by-charlotte-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat by Coral Rumble illustrated by Charlotte Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many things I like about twitter is making new discoveries, so was delighted when I was offered a chance to review this picture book &#038; in turn discover such a treasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-150713.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-150713.jpg\" alt=\"20131101-150713.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat is a mother &#038; daughter collaboration, telling the story of two young children at play armed with a cardboard box &#038; a healthy dose of imagination. As they set sail they see a host of well dressed sealife, pirates, a puffin &#038; a naughty seagull all gloriously illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>I was captured by the first spread in this book of both the children in their homemade boat reminding me of the fun my kids have. While a short read its one both children have asked for again &#038; again. With so much detail &#038; humour in the illustration there&#8217;s plenty for us to pour over, to spot &#038; chuckle at. <\/p>\n<p>A sweet little read perfect for sharing at bedtime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-150639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-150639.jpg\" alt=\"20131101-150639.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many things I like about twitter is making new discoveries, so was delighted when I was offered a chance to review this picture book &#038; in turn discover such a treasure. The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat is a mother &#038; daughter collaboration, telling the story of two young children [&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],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-freya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}