{"id":21,"date":"2009-01-29T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-02-24T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T11:23:51","slug":"the-pencil-by-allan-ahlberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/the-pencil-by-allan-ahlberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thepencil-2.jpg?resize=101%2C112\" alt=\"The Pencil\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"101\" height=\"112\" align=\"left\" \/>The Pencil  written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walker.co.uk\/contributors\/Allan-Ahlberg-1993.aspx\">Allan Ahlberg <\/a> and illustrated by Bruce Ingman. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=The%20Pencil&amp;tag=dolphinbooks2-21&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What a book! Another winner for Allan Ahlberg.<\/p>\n<p>It starts out as a simple pencil. Then it builds the story until it begins to draw.<\/p>\n<p>It adds colour and people come into the picture. They begin to squabble and act as all people do.<\/p>\n<p>A twist of magic is when the eraser is introduced!<\/p>\n<p>This is really a picture book for any age. A joy to look and to read. But yet it is a book about being creative, how complex life can be and that often conflict is maybe just around the corner!<\/p>\n<p>A success for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walker.co.uk\/\">Walker Books. \u00a0(Publisher's home page link).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Walker%20Books&amp;tag=dolphinbooks2-21&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link for Walker Books. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>To look for more information and find other new titles in picture books and beyond try <a href=\"http:\/\/\/carouselguide.co.uk\/\">Carousel<\/a>, The Guide to Children's Books.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\">Dolphinbooksellers<\/a> home page is here.<\/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>The Pencil written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Bruce Ingman. \u00a0(Amazon link) What a book! Another winner for Allan Ahlberg. It starts out as a simple pencil. Then it builds the story until it begins to draw. It adds colour and people come into the picture. They begin to squabble and act as all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/the-pencil-by-allan-ahlberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg\"<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-titles","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}