{"id":1546,"date":"2014-02-13T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2014-02-15T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:51:09","slug":"bedtime-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/02\/bedtime-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140215-165640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140215-165640.jpg\" alt=\"20140215-165640.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are having another phase of Julia Donaldson books for bedtime at the moment, the current 3 regular requests are Stick Man, Jack &#038; the Flumflum Tree and The Princess and the Wizard.<\/p>\n<p>The rhyming nature of Stick Man means we rattle through it although as usual there&#8217;s is lots of detail in Axel Schefflers illustration to make us pause &#038; study the pages. When the girl uses Stick Man as a Pooh stick Freya is keen to know where Winnie the Pooh is. <\/p>\n<p>My favourite however is Jack &#038; the Flumflum Tree, owing to the exquisite illustrations &#038; the fun adventurous tale. Its great that the characters are a mix of gender &#038; race making this a more accessible tale. Jack &#038; his friend set off a mission to get a Flumflum luckily equipped with &#8220;granny&#8217;s bag&#8221; for the adventures they encounter, which include meeting sharks &#038; a cheeky monkey.<\/p>\n<p>The Princess &#038; the Wizard is different to the other two in not following the familiar rhyming pattern &#038; is also being a  longer story. The princess, captured by the wizard is given the chance to escape  by &#8220;changing her colour &#038; changing her shape&#8221;. Her determination &#038; quick thinking lead to her getting back to her party for a slice of cake. The two highlights of the book are the feisty heroine &#038; the focus on colour, which Freya is currently enjoying learning about.<\/p>\n<p>The book even inspired to make our own puppets, letting Freya take centre stage as Princess &#038; casting her brother as the wicked wizard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140215-162859.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140215-162859.jpg\" alt=\"20140215-162859.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are having another phase of Julia Donaldson books for bedtime at the moment, the current 3 regular requests are Stick Man, Jack &#038; the Flumflum Tree and The Princess and the Wizard. The rhyming nature of Stick Man means we rattle through it although as usual there&#8217;s is lots of detail in Axel Schefflers [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}