{"id":1620,"date":"2014-09-06T06:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:14:07","slug":"katies-picture-show-by-james-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/09\/katies-picture-show-by-james-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie&#8217;s Picture Show by James Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/53cfbec8e4b0bececae2982a\/1088466\">Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Childrens Books Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8200.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This stunning picture book is a wonderful introduction to famous works of art including Constable&#8217;s Hay Wain &amp; Rosseau&#8217;s Surprised.<\/p>\n<p>I am very fond of the titular Katie, an independent, adventure seeking, inquisitive feisty young girl with a fondness for cakes. Her disregard for the &#8216;Do not touch&#8217; notices leads to her falling into the paintings and meeting the characters in the paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing these paintings from a different perspective helped bring them to life &amp; encouraged the children to look for stories within the pictures. I am looking forward to our next visit to a gallery, although I suspect Freya may try diving into a painting if I let her out of my sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Childrens Books Family Reviews This stunning picture book is a wonderful introduction to famous works of art including Constable&#8217;s Hay Wain &amp; Rosseau&#8217;s Surprised. I am very fond of the titular Katie, an independent, adventure seeking, inquisitive feisty young girl with a fondness for cakes. Her disregard [&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-1620","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\/1620","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=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}