{"id":287,"date":"2016-10-07T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-09-19T23:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:45:17","slug":"the-best-books-for-happy-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2016\/10\/the-best-books-for-happy-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The best books for happy kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts say that there are three very important times of day to connect with your children, when they first wake up, when they get home from school, and at bedtime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because bedtime is usually a chore, we\u2019ve picked out the best books that make both you and your children laugh-out-loud.\u00a0 After all, there\u2019s no better medicine than laughter\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I Broke My Trunk; by Mo Willems<\/span><\/p>\n

These books are amazing!\u00a0 They are seriously funny for both kids and adults.\u00a0The series is about two friends, Elephant and Piggy, and their hilariously funny conversations.\u00a0 These books are witty, a bit quirky and always end in hilarious, unexpected ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuck<\/span>;\u00a0<\/span><\/a>by Oliver Jeffers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The authors\u00a0books are quirky and funny for both parents and kids.\u00a0 Stuck\u00a0, is a story of a boy whose kite gets stuck in a tree, so he throws up his shoe to get it down, but that gets stuck too.\u00a0 Oh but he\u2019s not deterred, this boy is determined to get down his kite\u2026no matter what. \u00a0Things spiral a bit out of control in this book, and the boy\u2019s antics will leave any kid rolling on the floor with laughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book with no pictures;\u00a0by B.J. Novak<\/span><\/p>\n

The premise of this children’s<\/a> book is that whoever reads the book, the storyteller<\/a> has to read every word\u2026.no matter how silly the word is.\u00a0 So parents are stuck yelling words like \u201cBlork!\u201d and sentences. Is there any better way to get kids to laugh, than by making the adults in their lives look silly? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Perfectly Messed-Up Story; by Patrick McDonnell<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story about a boy named Louie, who just wants to tell you a story, but keeps getting interrupted by\u2026you.\u00a0 How dare you drop peanut butter and jelly on him when he\u2019s telling his story?!\u00a0 These little instructions send little Louie over the edge a bit, and he has to learn to persevere and be okay with a little bit of a mess. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Experts say that there are three very important times of day to connect with your children, when they first wake up, when they get home from school, and at bedtime. Because bedtime is usually a chore, we\u2019ve picked out the best books that make both you and your children laugh-out-loud.\u00a0 After all, there\u2019s no better … Continue reading “The best books for happy kids”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,10],"tags":[133,71,87,83,61,132],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-story-tellers","tag-books","tag-children","tag-family","tag-idea","tag-kids","tag-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}