{"id":1817,"date":"2016-07-04T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2016-07-04T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:50:16","slug":"doodle-girl-the-monkey-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2016\/07\/doodle-girl-the-monkey-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodle Girl &#038; the Monkey Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/574ffd54e4b00d22af5df92e\/2085938\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews<\/a><br \/>\nDoodle Girl by Suzanne Smith, Lindsay Taylor, illustrated by Marnie Maurri<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_1830.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_1830.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis is a lovely fun book about Doodle Girl who lives in a magic sketchbook and has a very handy magic pencil, when she whispers &#8220;Draw, draw, draw&#8221; the adventure begins. Starting with just a triangle Doodle Girl conjures up an aeroplane. She soon finds herself in the jungle, with her incredibly cute pals, and gets to put her drawing skills into action.<\/p>\n<p>Freya &amp; I enjoyed this book. Freya loved the story especially the imaginative way Doodle Girl rescues the monkey.<\/p>\n<p>While reading the book we were reminded of the &#8216;shape game&#8217; we like to play where we draw shapes &amp; turn them into pictures. Inspired by the story Freya was keen to get her pencils out, luckily the book came with a special bonus &#8211; stickers &amp; a giant colour-in poster. While colouring the poster Freya liked looking back at the pages of the book and spotting the different characters.<\/p>\n<p>A beautifully creative book which makes us reach for the pencil case after every read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_1546.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/img_1546.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews Doodle Girl by Suzanne Smith, Lindsay Taylor, illustrated by Marnie Maurri &nbsp;&nbsp; This is a lovely fun book about Doodle Girl who lives in a magic sketchbook and has a very handy magic pencil, when she whispers &#8220;Draw, draw, draw&#8221; the adventure begins. Starting with [&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-1817","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\/1817","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=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}