{"id":1015,"date":"2015-08-04T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2015-08-16T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T10:24:07","slug":"the-fire-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/the-fire-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Fire Children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fire-Children-West-African-Folk\/dp\/184780652X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1438695635&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+fire+children\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image2-34.jpg?resize=225%2C289\" alt=\"Image 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"289\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><strong>A <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"West Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">West African<\/a> Folk Tale which has been retold by <a title=\"Eric Maddern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericmaddern.co.uk\">Eric Maddern <\/a> and illustrated by <a title=\"Frane Lessac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.franelessac.com\">Frane Lessac.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intriguing West African <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Creation myth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creation_myth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">creation myth<\/a> looking at the question of why some people are black and some are white, and others different shades?<\/p>\n<p>The ' first spirit people' who found that they were lonely decided to solve their loneliness by filling the earth with children of all colours under the sun.<\/p>\n<p><em>' Now the spirit people breathed life into <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Fire Children: A West African Folk Tale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fire-Children-West-African-Folk\/dp\/1845075145%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1845075145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"amazon\">the fire children<\/a>. One by one they awoke, yawned, stretched and opened their eyes, just like children waking up in the morning. Then they stood up and went off to play.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Frances Lincoln\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartoknows.com\/brand\/2070\/Frances-Lincoln-Children-s-Books\/\">Frances Lincoln<\/a> have published another good title which will compliment <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"School library\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/School_library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">school libraries<\/a> and your collection at home too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sue Martin \u2013 <a title=\"Dolphin Booksellers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\">Dolphin Booksellers<\/a>, The Best in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Children's literature\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Children%27s_literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Children's Books<\/a> on-line.<\/em><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A West African Folk Tale which has been retold by Eric Maddern and illustrated by Frane Lessac. An intriguing West African creation myth looking at the question of why some people are black and some are white, and others different shades? The ' first spirit people' who found that they were lonely decided to solve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/the-fire-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Fire Children\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220,15,5,7,6,4],"tags":[64,313,10,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-1015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books-go-walkabout-2","7":"category-dolphinbooksellers","8":"category-featured-authors","9":"category-featured-childrens-book","10":"category-featured-illustrators","11":"category-new-titles","12":"tag-dolphin-booksellers","13":"tag-eric-maddern","14":"tag-frances-lincoln","15":"tag-frane-lessac","16":"h-entry","17":"hentry","18":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-gn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}