{"id":496,"date":"2012-04-13T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2012-04-14T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T04:03:19","slug":"mrs-mufflys-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/mrs-mufflys-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Muffly&#8217;s Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" title=\"Mrs Muffley's Monster...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image8.jpg?resize=225%2C231\" alt=\"Image 8\" width=\"225\" height=\"231\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Muffly lives by herself in a house on the top of the hill.<\/p>\n<p>But why is she now buying loads and loads of food? Maybe there really is large and dangerous monster in the house?<\/p>\n<p>A beautiful story which sets children thinking about jumping to conclusions and what can happen when you make assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>The drawings and pencil illustrations are stylish and appealing, <a title=\"See Sarah Dyer's work here...\" href=\"http:\/\/sarahdyer.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Dyer <\/a> has a brilliant use of colour and space.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah has written and illustrated many children's books and in 2001 her first book, Five Little Fiends won the Smarties Bronze Award.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Frances Lincoln - great children's books from a renowned publisher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.franceslincoln.co.uk\/en\/C\/1\/Book\/2942\/Mrs_Muffly%27s_Monster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Lincoln <\/a>\u00a0published <a title=\"See Mrs Muffley's Monster on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mrs-Mufflys-Monster-Sarah-Dyer\/dp\/1847800408\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334375942&amp;sr=1-2-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\">Mrs Muffly's Monster<\/a> and <a title=\"Read more about the monster on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Monster-Day-Work-Sarah-Dyer\/dp\/1847800696\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334376023&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Day at Work<\/a> in the summer of 2011. Both are available in paperback and can be bought through the links above.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Dolphin Booksellers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/index.htm\">Dolphin Booksellers <\/a> - the best in children's books always 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>Mrs Muffly lives by herself in a house on the top of the hill. But why is she now buying loads and loads of food? Maybe there really is large and dangerous monster in the house? A beautiful story which sets children thinking about jumping to conclusions and what can happen when you make assumptions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/mrs-mufflys-monster\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Mrs Muffly&#8217;s Monster\"<\/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":[15,5,7,6,4],"tags":[64,10,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dolphinbooksellers","7":"category-featured-authors","8":"category-featured-childrens-book","9":"category-featured-illustrators","10":"category-new-titles","11":"tag-dolphin-booksellers","12":"tag-frances-lincoln","13":"tag-smarties-bronze-award","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry","16":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-80","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}