{"id":797,"date":"2017-03-02T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=797"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:59:07","slug":"world-book-day-top-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day Top Five: 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For World Book Day, I am sharing five of the picture books I most wish I&#8217;d written.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0<em>Who&#8217;s Afraid of The Big Bad Book?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>By Lauren Child<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-790 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2044\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2044-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I wish I&#8217;d written it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I do have a soft spot for books about books. Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler&#8217;s <em>Charlie Cook&#8217;s Favourite Book<\/em> is another lovely one. But what I love about <em>Who&#8217;s Afraid of The Big Bad Book?<\/em> is that it&#8217;s laugh-out-loud funny. Lauren Child is so witty, subversive and clever. My favourite bit is where our hero, Herb, is trying to climb up the text to escape, but &#8216;Some of the words were a bit weak and the whole lot started to wobble&#8217;. I can honestly say, I know that feeling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For World Book Day, I am sharing five of the picture books I most wish I&#8217;d written. This is the third. 3.\u00a0Who&#8217;s Afraid of The Big Bad Book?\u00a0By Lauren Child Why do I wish I&#8217;d written it? Well, I do have a soft spot for books about books. Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler&#8217;s Charlie Cook&#8217;s [&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\/797"}],"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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}