{"id":4264,"date":"2016-05-04T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:19:10","slug":"messy-like-pigpen-and-other-like-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/messy-like-pigpen-and-other-like-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Messy Like Pigpen and other Like books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1481463756\/ref=nosim\/aaugh-20\/?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4265\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PigPenCover-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"PigPenCover\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PigPenCover-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PigPenCover.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kindly deliveryman has brought me two books in the [blank] Like [character] series,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1481463756\/ref=nosim\/aaugh-20\/?\"><strong>Messy Like Pigpen\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/148146373X\/ref=nosim\/aaugh-20\/\"><strong>Cool Like Snoopy<\/strong><\/a>. Now, when I review a book, I try to do it with consideration as to who the target market is&#8230; but in this case, I&#8217;m really not sure. These are board books, so you&#8217;d reckon that they&#8217;re for little hands (which they are), with lots of pictures (which they have), and perhaps some text (they&#8217;ve got that) which is meant for parents to read to pre-readers. It&#8217;s that last one where my expectations for the book grow befuddled.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them tell stories based on the strip, with the Pigpen book more telling actual strip lines and Snoopy more about building a single story. And it&#8217;s in the Pigpen book, leaning more on strip dialog, where the most egregiously curious text lies. If you&#8217;re aiming a book at the under-3s, do you really want to throw in disheveled, psychiatrist, archaeologist, civilizations, and other words of that scale? Or is this book targeted at older folks, and if so, why a board book? This runs into the sort of juggling that happens regularly with Peanuts, which is a series developed for adults but embraced by children.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki Scott unsurprisingly does a nice job of illustrating both books; I particularly like her Pigpen.<\/p>\n<p>If you think these books are for you, I encourage you to buy and enjoy them. I&#8217;m just not sure who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindly deliveryman has brought me two books in the [blank] Like [character] series,\u00a0Messy Like Pigpen\u00a0and\u00a0Cool Like Snoopy. Now, when I review a book, I try to do it with consideration as to who the target market is&#8230; but in this case, I&#8217;m really not sure. These are board books, so &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}