{"id":1651,"date":"2014-12-15T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:12:47","slug":"winnies-big-bad-robot-by-valerie-thomas-and-korky-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/12\/winnies-big-bad-robot-by-valerie-thomas-and-korky-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnie&#8217;s Big Bad Robot by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/542ba852e4b0808f5d678582\/1216098\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Book Family Reviews <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7178.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7178.png\" alt=\"IMG_7178.PNG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winnie the Witch is always popular with Bryn &amp; Freya; they enjoy her mad cap adventures and this book was no exception. Proud of her cardboard robot creation Winnie decides to turn it into a real robot. The real robot turns out to be a big bad robot and chaos ensues when he gets hold of Winnies magic wand.<\/p>\n<p>The illustrations bring this story to life especially when the robot causes havoc turning ducks, frogs, Winnie&#8217;s house &amp; even Winnie into robots. The transformation from one picture to the next is as magical as Winnie&#8217;s wand.<\/p>\n<p>The mix of magic with familiar activities, such as going to the library, provides a comforting start before the roller coaster adventure begins. A great story to share with the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Book Family Reviews Winnie the Witch is always popular with Bryn &amp; Freya; they enjoy her mad cap adventures and this book was no exception. Proud of her cardboard robot creation Winnie decides to turn it into a real robot. The real robot turns out to be a [&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-1651","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\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}