{"id":794,"date":"2017-03-02T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=794"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:00:04","slug":"world-book-day-top-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day Top Five: 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought as it’s World Book Day, I’d share five of the picture books I most wish I’d written.<\/p>\n

Here’s number 2:<\/p>\n

2:\u00a0The Snail and the Whale\u00a0<\/em>by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why do I wish I’d written it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s the favourite Donaldson\/Sheffler book in our house for all sorts of reasons. But the reason I wish I’d written it, is for the quality and ambition of the language. I so admire the description, the rhythm, the rhyme, the alliteration: ‘These are the waves that arched and crashed,\/That foamed and frolicked and sprayed and splashed.’ It’s a wonderful book to read out loud. And I love the audacity of a picture book that uses words like ‘immensely’ and ‘towering’. It shows great confidence in the beauty of the way language\u00a0sounds.\u00a0<\/strong>Young children don’t have to know what every word means to love it. It is like listening to music.<\/p>\n

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I thought as it’s World Book Day, I’d share five of the picture books I most wish I’d written. Here’s number 2: 2:\u00a0The Snail and the Whale\u00a0by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler   Why do I wish I’d written it? It’s the favourite Donaldson\/Sheffler book in our house for all sorts of reasons. But the […]<\/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\/794"}],"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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}