{"id":1634,"date":"2014-10-02T05:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:13:17","slug":"a-year-of-stories-and-things-to-do-by-shirley-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/10\/a-year-of-stories-and-things-to-do-by-shirley-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Stories and Things To Do by Shirley Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/5406f7ace4b076be556b39d7\/1150314\">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\/10\/IMG_8384.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_8384.png\" alt=\"IMG_8384.PNG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fabulous treasury of well loved stories &amp; poems for every month of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Each month introduces you to a flower or plant, and suggests play and craft activities. The &#8216;Things to do&#8217; often echo activities from the stories, such as making a scrapbook, blowing bubbles, playing thumb wars: charming simple games that have stood the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>The treasury includes stories featuring familiar characters such as Alfie &amp; Lily; Alfie&#8217;s Feet, Alfie Wins a Prize, Don&#8217;t Want To Go, Bobbo Goes to School.<\/p>\n<p>An instant hit was the spectacularly stylish Ella&#8217;s Big Chance, a reworking of Cinderella, while the wordless A Midwinter Night&#8217;s Dream gave us plenty to talk about &amp; pour over.<\/p>\n<p>Since this treasury arrived Freya has shown no interest in her other books &amp; has requested one story after another. So far she&#8217;s enjoyed every one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freya &amp; I wrote this for the Guardian Childrens Books Family Reviews A fabulous treasury of well loved stories &amp; poems for every month of the year. Each month introduces you to a flower or plant, and suggests play and craft activities. The &#8216;Things to do&#8217; often echo activities from the stories, such as making [&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-1634","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\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}