{"id":23095,"date":"2019-08-29T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2019-08-29T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:50:35","slug":"childrens-book-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23095","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Book Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082902.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Corner\" \/><br \/>\nI have started seeing children&#8217;s books, left outside, in Abingdon. They are left in clear bags with a note from the person who donated them.  In the last 24 hours I have seen three such books.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082903.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Corner\" \/><br \/>\nThe note says <i>You have found a book. You can either read me, leave me, or take me home. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is the initiative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1078719412330231\/\">Look for a book Oxfordshire Facebook Group<\/a>. The group began on Saturday 10th August 2019.<\/p>\n<p><i>Read it Daddy<\/i>, a fellow Abingdon blogger, has been blogging for over 9 years at <a href=\"https:\/\/readitdaddy.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/readitdaddy.blogspot.com\/<\/a>. His speciality is reviewing children&#8217;s books, sometimes more than one a day. He will know most of these found books.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082907.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Corner\" \/><br \/>\nOn 22nd July <i>Read it Daddy<\/i> reviewed a book by an Abingdon author &#8211; Nicki Thornton.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082905.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Corner\" \/><br \/>\nNicki used to be the co-owner of Mostly Books. Looking at the window at Mostly Books I see they have lots of children&#8217;s books including some about <em>Starting School<\/em>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082904.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Corner\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile at The Bookstore in Abingdon there are a lot of children&#8217;s books in the corner window. They even have one that I recognise &#8211; <i>Starting School By Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started seeing children&#8217;s books, left outside, in Abingdon. They are left in clear bags with a note from the person who donated them. In the last 24 hours I have seen three such books. The note says You have found a book. You can either read me, leave me, or take me home. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}