{"id":105,"date":"2006-11-23T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-11-23T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T13:42:12","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-by-kit-pearsonpenguin-viking-kestrel-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-sky-is-falling-by-kit-pearsonpenguin-viking-kestrel-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky is Falling by Kit PearsonPenguin (Viking Kestrel), 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flap copy of this book notes that Pearson is &#8220;a librarian as well as a writer,&#8221; which might be part of why the book includes so many pleasing library-ish and book-ish moments. The novel is the story of two British children who are evacuated to Canada during WWII, and while parts of it are sentimental, I loved the characters of the children (Norah with her collection of shrapnel, Gavin with his toy elephant called Creature), and the friends they make in Canada. I love that Norah discovers books by Arthur Ransome, and that she reads aloud to her brother from <em>Five Children and It<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flap copy of this book notes that Pearson is &#8220;a librarian as well as a writer,&#8221; which might be part of why the book includes so many pleasing library-ish and book-ish moments. The novel is the story of two British children who are evacuated to Canada during WWII, and while parts of it are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}