{"id":1735,"date":"2015-06-13T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:38:41","slug":"rules-of-summer-by-shaun-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2015\/06\/rules-of-summer-by-shaun-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/551a521fe4b067498b270e18\/1455978\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Book Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8934.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8934.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBryn described this as a book about rules &amp; consequences. He felt the pictures were a funny way of describing the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>With its sparse text &amp; sometimes surreal pictures I wasn&#8217;t sure how the children would react but they were intrigued &amp; transfixed. We read the book a few times &amp; with each reading we found more things to talk about and to spot. I enjoyed seeing their reactions to the pictures and it was noticeable that they both became quiet &amp; sombre when the pictures were darker in tone.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the illustrations Bryn was intrigued by the difference in scale with the depictions of large animals &amp; food. Freya however was more interested in the pictures of the two children.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed Rules of Summer, being introduced to something different and challenging was a great treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Book Family Reviews &nbsp;&nbsp; Bryn described this as a book about rules &amp; consequences. He felt the pictures were a funny way of describing the consequences. With its sparse text &amp; sometimes surreal pictures I wasn&#8217;t sure how the children would react but they were intrigued &amp; transfixed. [&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-1735","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\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}