{"id":1556,"date":"2014-03-05T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:15:26","slug":"walk-this-world-by-lotta-neimenen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/03\/walk-this-world-by-lotta-neimenen\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk this World by Lotta Neimenen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryn, Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Family Reviews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140305-200738.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140305-200738.jpg\" alt=\"20140305-200738.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a stunning &#8216;coffee table&#8217; like book; sumptuous, enticing, stylish and ready to whisk you away to another country.<\/p>\n<p>The book invites you to &#8220;take a stroll to the four corners of the globe&#8221; and explore different cultures. Each double page spread depicts a city with lots of flaps providing funny &amp; quirky glimpses into people&#8217;s flats, shops &amp; vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>I had fun reading this with the children, they were fascinated at opening a flap to a picture of a child in the bath or a crocodile on a leash. With so many things for us to spot and talk about, including a cat eating spaghetti, we were easily engrossed. With Freya (2) it was fun the spotting animals in the different cities and she enjoyed lifting all the flaps. With Bryn (6) I was able to talk about the differences between the cities and which ones he&#8217;d like to visit.<\/p>\n<p>The stylish illustrations make this book really stand out &#8211; this isn&#8217;t your typical children&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryn, Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Family Reviews This is a stunning &#8216;coffee table&#8217; like book; sumptuous, enticing, stylish and ready to whisk you away to another country. The book invites you to &#8220;take a stroll to the four corners of the globe&#8221; and explore different cultures. Each double page spread depicts [&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-1556","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\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}