{"id":1500,"date":"2013-11-29T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:16:19","slug":"the-storm-whale-by-benji-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/11\/the-storm-whale-by-benji-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storm Whale by Benji Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &amp; I wrote for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/gallery\/2013\/nov\/29\/family-reviews-childrens-books-in-pictures#\/?picture=423409456&amp;index=0\"> Family Guardian Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131129-161501.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131129-161501.jpg\" alt=\"20131129-161501.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis is an enchanting story about a little boy called Noi. Noi is very lonely until he discovers a small beached whale to care for. Hiding a whale (even a small one) however, proves to be tricky and when the whale is discovered he has a difficult decision to make.<\/p>\n<p>Bryn enjoyed reading this book to himself and then encouraging me to read it because he thought it was &#8216;lovely&#8217;. He found it easy to read as it&#8217;s a short story with little text, but the illustrations provided lots of detail to study. We both loved the illustrations which conveyed the warmth and tenderness of the story beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>We really enjoyed this story, leaving us with a warm glow, it&#8217;s a true beauty<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131129-161559.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131129-161559.jpg\" alt=\"20131129-161559.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn &amp; I wrote for the Family Guardian Reviews This is an enchanting story about a little boy called Noi. Noi is very lonely until he discovers a small beached whale to care for. Hiding a whale (even a small one) however, proves to be tricky and when the whale is [&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":[28],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guardian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","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=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}