{"id":1792,"date":"2016-05-08T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:07:34","slug":"t-veg-by-smriti-prasadam-halls-katherina-manolesso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2016\/05\/t-veg-by-smriti-prasadam-halls-katherina-manolesso\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Veg by Smriti Prasadam-Halls &#038; Katherina Manolesso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/56334050e4b0aceae193b8f8\/1821325\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_1399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_1399.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBoth kids were instantly drawn to this book with its vibrant illustrations &amp; charming story. They happily pored over the cover &amp; end papers spotting the different vegetables and chuckled at the idea of a t-rex not eating meat. However my hope that seeing their favourite dinosaur eating a massive slice of avocado pie would entice them to be more adventurous has not been met!<\/p>\n<p>T-Veg a &#8216;carrot crunching dinosaur&#8217; is teased by his friends for his vegetarian ways and runs away to make friends with some herbivores but this doesn&#8217;t go to plan. Its not long, however, before his friends begin to miss him &amp; when he reappears to save the day everyone learns the important lesson of &#8216;being happy being you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This jewel of a book exploding with colour &amp; warmth has been a hit with the children. The story told in rhyme is a joy to read aloud. The pages, teeming with brightly coloured dinosaurs, are captivating and the heartwarming message is an important one to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews&nbsp;&nbsp; Both kids were instantly drawn to this book with its vibrant illustrations &amp; charming story. They happily pored over the cover &amp; end papers spotting the different vegetables and chuckled at the idea of a t-rex not eating meat. However my hope that seeing their [&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-1792","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\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}