{"id":39,"date":"2020-04-21T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/?p=39"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:15:47","slug":"mouse-circus-reading-with-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/2020\/04\/mouse-circus-reading-with-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Circus: Reading with Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/files\/2020\/04\/x300-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/files\/2020\/04\/x300-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/files\/2020\/04\/x300-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>For students looking for something a bit more challenging than picture books, Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mousecircus.com\/\">site<\/a> for younger readers is worth checking out.\u00a0 He is reading two of his famous chapter books: <em>Coraline<\/em> and <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em>, chapter by chapter to support distance learning.\u00a0 <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em> is about a boy named Bod who lives in a graveyard, raised by the other occupants that exist there.\u00a0 <em>Coraline<\/em>\u00a0is about a girl who moves into a new house and finds a door that leads to another world. Be warned: both books have a definite eerie element to them; although I was able to read Coraline, and I am a bit of a chicken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For students looking for something a bit more challenging than picture books, Neil Gaiman&#8217;s site for younger readers is worth checking out.\u00a0 He is reading two of his famous chapter books: Coraline and The Graveyard Book, chapter by chapter to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/2020\/04\/mouse-circus-reading-with-neil-gaiman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Mouse Circus: Reading with Neil Gaiman<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/brantford-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}