{"id":10576,"date":"2007-08-02T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T18:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/02\/10576.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:54","slug":"book-report-the-chewinggum-res","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/02\/book-report-the-chewinggum-res\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Chewing-Gum Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems I haven&#8217;t written a Puff Piece about my favorite picture-book writer, Margaret Mahy. I recently read a collection of her not-picture-book stories called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlookpress.com\/book-detail.php?book_isbn=0-87951-424-8\">The Chewing-Gum Rescue and other stories<\/a>, and the quality was mixed. The title story was absolutely wonderful, and there were a handful of other magnificent stories in there as well, but there were a few duds. Well, comparative duds. Still pretty good, actually. And I haven&#8217;t read any of the young-adult or juvenile novels that I understand are what made her reputation. I read her picture books, aloud, to my Perfect Non-Reader, and I hope to read them to the Youngest Member.\n<p>My favorite, and I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, is <I>17 Kings and 42 Elephants<\/I>. My Best Reader prefers <I>The Boy Who Was Followed Home<\/I>, which is also a wonderful book. I&#8217;d probably put <I>The Horrendous Hullabaloo<\/I> into a Top Three for recommending to people, but there are something like fifty books, of which I&#8217;ve only seen maybe a dozen. <I>The Three-legged Cat<\/I> is wonderful, as is <I>A Summery Saturday Morning<\/I>, and <I>The Rattlebang Picnic<\/I> is terrific, as is <I>Simply Delicious!<\/I>, and I could go on.\n<p>Gentle Readers who want a taste can read the text of her newest (as far as I know) book, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.christchurch.org.nz\/MargaretMahy\/DownTheBackOfTheChair\">Down the Back of the Chair<\/a> on-line. Read it aloud, aloud, aloud. My Perfect Non-Reader read the title story of the <I>Chewing-Gum Rescue<\/I> to herself silently, and didn&#8217;t much care for it, but when it was read aloud, aloud, aloud, she loved it, as did Your Humble Blogger.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I haven\u2019t written a Puff Piece about my favorite picture-book writer, Margaret Mahy. I recently read a collection of her not-picture-book stories called The Chewing-Gum Rescue and other stories, and the quality was mixed. The title story was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}