{"id":1760,"date":"2015-11-16T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:08:48","slug":"tell-me-a-picture-by-quentin-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2015\/11\/tell-me-a-picture-by-quentin-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me a Picture by Quentin Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/5592691ae4b0e31832956e8c\/1628310\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0083.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0083.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This book is based on an exhibition, &#8216;Tell Me A Picture&#8217; curated by Quentin Blake when appointed Children&#8217;s Laureate in 1999. The pages are filled with pictures by illustrators, modern painters &amp; some of the old master paintings from the national gallery. Each picture in the exhibition has been chosen as it has some kind of story in it.<\/p>\n<p>The drawings of children chatting and asking questions on the page facing the picture helped encourage Bryn to explore &amp; talk about the pictures. He enjoyed discovering pictures where he recognised a character like Hunuman or St George or ones with lots of detail to study. There are also useful pages at the back providing a brief description of each picture &amp; details of where you can find it.<\/p>\n<p>I also found having only the prompts &amp; name of artist on the page great for focusing on the picture &amp; enjoying the art.<\/p>\n<p>A great art book for children perfectly pitched to engage, enthuse &amp; inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews&nbsp; &nbsp; This book is based on an exhibition, &#8216;Tell Me A Picture&#8217; curated by Quentin Blake when appointed Children&#8217;s Laureate in 1999. The pages are filled with pictures by illustrators, modern painters &amp; some of the old master paintings from the national gallery. Each picture [&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-1760","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\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}