{"id":1383,"date":"2018-11-16T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:17:01","slug":"great-feedback-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Great feedback from Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s so exciting to be reminded that words and pictures created in my tiny office on the Isle of Wight can be read and appreciated by people living thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

I have been forwarded an email from a mum living in Canada, thanking her English friend for sending her daughter three of my books:<\/p>\n

Ms. Peta Rainford’s stories and illustrations captivated her imagination. I appreciate Ms. Rainford’s gift in distilling the world of children through her characters and at the same time making her tales appealing to grown-ups reading the books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of Ms. Rainford’s characters resonated with my little one. In a way, she’s similar to Isabella and the Hairy Fairy who has such a big and kind heart. H.Fairy also dances to the beat of her own\"\"<\/a> drum. When we first read\u00a0<\/span>Isabella, Rotten Speller,\u00a0<\/i>Malaya was incensed that the black cat was mean to Isabella and “sabotaged” her magic. She protested to the injustice with this rhetorical question: “Why was the black cat mean to Isabella? She didn’t do anything\u00a0<\/span>mean<\/b>\u00a0to the black cat!” Jacob’s fear of the darkness is familiar to M as well. It was only in the past year she has made the “darkness her friend” …<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyhow, please extend Malaya’s and my appreciation of Ms. Rainford’s work! We thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you are a far-flung reader, please get in touch – I’d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s so exciting to be reminded that words and pictures created in my tiny office on the Isle of Wight can be read and appreciated by people living thousands of miles away. I have been forwarded an email from a mum living in Canada, thanking her English friend for sending her daughter three of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}