{"id":1744,"date":"2015-07-22T05:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:09:28","slug":"poppy-pickle-by-emma-yarlett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2015\/07\/poppy-pickle-by-emma-yarlett\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy Pickle by Emma Yarlett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/5540d432e4b0d2a0ea488651\/1519607\">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\/07\/IMG_9258.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9258.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFrom the first reading I was completely bowled over by this book. A blast of sunshiny goodness brimming with gorgeous witty illustrations, well designed page layouts, a fabulously funny story and a larger than life heroine bursting from the pages with her joyous imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Poppy Pickle is a little girl with a big imagination living with her ordinary family. When sent upstairs to tidy her room she discovers her imagination comes to life with a &#8216;pop&#8217; and soon she is surrounded by lots of funny creatures including a monocle wearing mammoth, a crablo picasso and a hungry crocodile. It turns out letting your imagination run away with you can lead to trouble. With a hungry crocodile &amp; two angry parents to cope with will Poppy have a happy ending?<\/p>\n<p>While Freya was a little worried about Poppy&#8217;s parents reaction to the chaos her imagination caused Bryn couldn&#8217;t stop laughing at Poppy&#8217;s imaginative creatures. A book we will enjoying reading again &amp; again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews &nbsp;&nbsp; From the first reading I was completely bowled over by this book. A blast of sunshiny goodness brimming with gorgeous witty illustrations, well designed page layouts, a fabulously funny story and a larger than life heroine bursting from the pages with her joyous imagination. [&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-1744","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\/1744","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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}