{"id":1626,"date":"2014-09-06T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:13:39","slug":"theres-a-lion-in-my-cornflakes-by-michelle-robinson-and-illustrated-by-jim-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/09\/theres-a-lion-in-my-cornflakes-by-michelle-robinson-and-illustrated-by-jim-field\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a Lion in my Cornflakes  by Michelle Robinson and illustrated by Jim Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/53cfbec8e4b0bececae2982a\/1107872\">Bryn, 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_8202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8202.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8202.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Its bonkers&#8221; declares Bryn. &#8220;Its silly&#8221; says Freya. I say &#8220;its funny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When two brothers decide to collect 100 coupons from cereal boxes so they can have their own lion, things don&#8217;t go to plan. Due to a shortage of lions the boys are provided with a series of alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>A wacky take involving a host of wild animals set amongst the backdrop of daily suburban life. My favourite spreads are the vignettes of the small boys full of comical recognisable behaviour; looking bored, picking noses &amp; making a mess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8204.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8204.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt starts out as a cautionary tale advising against saving coupons for a lion but it&#8217;s so much fun that by the end both kids wanted a lion. Luckily the book comes with coupons!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_8203.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8203.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryn, Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Childrens Books Family Reviews &#8220;Its bonkers&#8221; declares Bryn. &#8220;Its silly&#8221; says Freya. I say &#8220;its funny&#8221;. When two brothers decide to collect 100 coupons from cereal boxes so they can have their own lion, things don&#8217;t go to plan. Due to a shortage of lions the [&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-1626","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\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}