{"id":1733,"date":"2015-06-13T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:32:49","slug":"abracazebra-by-helen-docherty-thomas-docherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2015\/06\/abracazebra-by-helen-docherty-thomas-docherty\/","title":{"rendered":"Abracazebra by Helen Docherty &#038; Thomas Docherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/54f83b91e4b069ec3435e5d8\/1434949\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Books Family Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8933.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI liked this book because not only is it a great read aloud story with rhyming text &amp; beautiful illustrations but it also has an important message about jealousy, fear and diversity. Freya loved this book because it features &#8216;Abracazebra&#8217;, a zebra doing magic tricks.<br \/>\nIn a town called Yawnalot nothing much happens, and what passes as entertainment is visiting Goat on his boat. This all changes when Abracazebra arrives &#8211; a fabulous magician who brings colour, fun &amp; stripes to the town. Jealous of the attention the new magician is getting, Goat decides &#8216;stripes are bad&#8217;, and it is only after Abracazebra has been driven away that Goat realises what they have lost and sets to work to get her back.<br \/>\nThe rhyme helps the story be told at a good pace and there illustrations provide humour and warmth to create this great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Books Family Review &nbsp;&nbsp; I liked this book because not only is it a great read aloud story with rhyming text &amp; beautiful illustrations but it also has an important message about jealousy, fear and diversity. Freya loved this book because it features &#8216;Abracazebra&#8217;, a zebra doing magic [&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-1733","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\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}