{"id":884,"date":"2017-08-16T08:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=884"},"modified":"2017-08-16T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:52:27","slug":"look-out-for-my-new-book-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Look out for my new book this Autumn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am just in the process of finishing off the illustrations for my <strong>new rhyming picture book<\/strong>, due <strong>out this autumn<\/strong>. It&#8217;s probably my most &#8216;traditional&#8217; book so far, both in terms of narrative and illustrative style &#8211; but don&#8217;t let that put you off (!) I think it still has a bit of an edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-878 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2571-e1502873057785.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It returns to themes similar to those explored in\u00a0<em>Hairy Fairy\u00a0<\/em>(which is all about girls daring to be different; daring to be themselves), but this time I look at that time when children first feel <strong>the niggle<\/strong> of anxiety and lose their natural, gung-ho confidence. My story says it&#8217;s ok to be afraid. <strong>You can&#8217;t be brave if you feel no fear!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-876 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2262-624x379.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes open for more information, including the\u00a0<strong>launch date<\/strong>, over the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just in the process of finishing off the illustrations for my new rhyming picture book, due out this autumn. It&#8217;s probably my most &#8216;traditional&#8217; book so far, both in terms of narrative and illustrative style &#8211; but don&#8217;t let that put you off (!) I think it still has a bit of an [&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\/884"}],"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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}