{"id":186,"date":"2019-05-14T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=186"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:46:10","slug":"the-land-of-neverendings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/05\/14\/the-land-of-neverendings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Land of Neverendings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emily watched, in a trance of astonishment, as the bear opened the picnic basket, took out a tartan rug and spread it on Holly’s bed.\u00a0<\/i>
\nAnd then the penguin spoke.\u00a0<\/i>
\nActually\u00a0<\/i>spoke.\u00a0<\/i>
\n‘What’s going on? This isn’t Pointed End!’<\/i>
\nThe bear said, ‘It looks like a human bedroom. We must’ve come through the wrong door.’<\/i>
\n‘But there aren’t any doors to the hard world in Deep Smockeroon! And we don’t have a human bedroom any more. We’re in a box in the attic.’<\/i><\/p>\n

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What if there exists a world powered by imagination?<\/p>\n

A world of silliness, where humans and their toys live on long after they’ve left the Hard World . . . and what if the door between that world and this one was broken?<\/p>\n

Welcome to the Land of Neverendings.<\/p>\n

Moving, raw and funny in all the right ways,\u00a0The Land of Neverendings<\/i>\u00a0is a rip-roaring adventure, but it also gives an honest portrayal of grief for young readers, and shows us that whilst sadness does exist in the world, it doesn’t have to cancel out happiness, or silliness, even when you lose someone you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily watched, in a trance of astonishment, as the bear opened the picnic basket, took out a tartan rug and spread it on Holly’s bed.\u00a0 And then the penguin spoke.\u00a0 Actually\u00a0spoke.\u00a0 ‘What’s going on? This isn’t Pointed End!’ The bear said, ‘It looks like a human bedroom. We must’ve come through the wrong door.’ ‘But … Continue reading “The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}