{"id":1580,"date":"2014-05-02T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2014-05-02T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:03:31","slug":"1580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/05\/1580\/","title":{"rendered":"To Market, To Market by Anushka Ravishankar  illustrated by  Emanuele Scanziani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn, Freya &#038; I write for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/gallery\/2014\/apr\/30\/family-reviews-childrens-books-in-pictures#\/?picture=435682355&#038;index=5\">Guardian Family Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140502-161112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140502-161112.jpg\" alt=\"20140502-161112.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a glorious little book full of vibrancy, rhythm &#038; colour. It&#8217;s a story about a girl exploring a market with a pocketful of change to spend and a head full of ideas of what to buy. Set in India she darts around the market from bangle stall to flower stall to a stall selling livestock &#038; another selling spices having lots of fun. <\/p>\n<p>I love the vivid detailed illustrations and how the text on the page mirrors the quirky rhyming narrative. The kids were equally intrigued and had plenty of questions about what they could see in the pictures &#038; some of the words that were used. <\/p>\n<p>A perfect glimpse into another country &#038; culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review Bryn, Freya &#038; I write for the Guardian Family Review This is a glorious little book full of vibrancy, rhythm &#038; colour. It&#8217;s a story about a girl exploring a market with a pocketful of change to spend and a head full of ideas of what to buy. Set in India [&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-1580","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\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}