{"id":1742,"date":"2015-06-13T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:49:05","slug":"space-dog-by-mini-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2015\/06\/space-dog-by-mini-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Dog by Mini Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/551a521fe4b067498b270e18\/1487193\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8936.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;We love it!&#8221; sums up Freya.<\/p>\n<p>This intergalactic adventure in which Space Dog not only rescues the inhabitants of Cornflake 5 &amp; Bottleopolis but also discovers how &#8216;sworn enemies&#8217; Astrocats and Moustronauts can become &#8216;sworn friends&#8217;. A heartwarming romp in a fantastically zany world expertly crafted by Mini Grey.<\/p>\n<p>The children were very taken with Dairy Quadrant map at the front of the book and use it for their own adventures. Like Space Dog they wanted to explore &amp; rush to the aid of anyone needing help.<\/p>\n<p>With every reading theres a new reference or joke to discover for both me and the children. A treat of a picture book for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p>We also followed Mini Grey&#8217;s excellent advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/gallery\/2015\/feb\/28\/how-to-draw-space-dog-mini-grey\">How To Draw Space Dog<\/a>. I will leave you to guess the artists of the pictures below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8559.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8560.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8557.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8557.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews &nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;We love it!&#8221; sums up Freya. This intergalactic adventure in which Space Dog not only rescues the inhabitants of Cornflake 5 &amp; Bottleopolis but also discovers how &#8216;sworn enemies&#8217; Astrocats and Moustronauts can become &#8216;sworn friends&#8217;. A heartwarming romp in a fantastically zany world [&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-1742","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\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}