{"id":732,"date":"2016-11-19T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=732"},"modified":"2016-11-19T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:25:02","slug":"fun-first-outing-for-numberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Fun first outing for Numberland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fun first public reading of\u00a0<em>Isabella&#8217;s Adventures in Numberland\u00a0<\/em>at the Windmills Preschool event today. It&#8217;s always a little nerve-wracking sharing a book with members of the public for the first time, especially when they are as discerning as the group I met today, ranging in age from two (&#8216;I&#8217;m nearly three. I&#8217;m nearly four. It&#8217;s my birthday soon.&#8217;) to sophisticated nine-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-3-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-3-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-3-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-3-624x343.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a great relief that they all seemed to like the story; listening very carefully and laughing in all the right places (there was a lot of laughter, which is always good to see.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-736 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-2-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-2-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-2-300x545.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-2.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome of the children also made some lovely Isabella and Blot puppets. A really fun morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-738 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Isabella&#8217;s Adventures in Numberland<\/em> is available to buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.eu\/1i916J8\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fun first public reading of\u00a0Isabella&#8217;s Adventures in Numberland\u00a0at the Windmills Preschool event today. It&#8217;s always a little nerve-wracking sharing a book with members of the public for the first time, especially when they are as discerning as the group I met today, ranging in age from two (&#8216;I&#8217;m nearly three. I&#8217;m nearly [&hellip;]<\/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\/732"}],"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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}