{"id":541,"date":"2024-07-08T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=541"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:37:03","slug":"the-lonely-book-by-meg-grehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2024\/07\/08\/the-lonely-book-by-meg-grehan\/","title":{"rendered":"The lonely book by Meg Grehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81JwRy+pJhL._SY466_.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"466\" \/>Annie\u2019s family is made of love.<\/p>\n<p>When her moms open up their bookshop in the morning, there is always a mysterious pile of books on the counter. By evening, every book has found its ideal reader. But one day there is a book that doesn\u2019t get bought. It has to lie there all on its own. Who can its reader be, and why don\u2019t they come?<\/p>\n<p>Days pass, and the book with no owner gets lonelier and lonelier. The bookshop is unhappy, and the moms are worried that the shop isn\u2019t making enough money.<\/p>\n<p>Then someone starts borrowing the book. Eventually, we realise it\u2019s Annie\u2019s sibling Charlotte \u2015 and it is a book about being non-binary. Mum explains what \u2018non-binary\u2019 means to Annie. Charlotte asks to be called Charlie and says that their pronouns are they\/them.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshop cheers up. Customers start buying books again.<\/p>\n<p>This family is made of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie\u2019s family is made of love. When her moms open up their bookshop in the morning, there is always a mysterious pile of books on the counter. By evening, every book has found its ideal reader. But one day there is a book that doesn\u2019t get bought. It has to lie there all on its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2024\/07\/08\/the-lonely-book-by-meg-grehan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The lonely book by Meg Grehan&#8221;<\/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-541","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\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}