{"id":2579,"date":"2015-03-21T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2015-03-21T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:08:18","slug":"216d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/216d\/","title":{"rendered":"216D: Toy soldier battles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am looking for a children&#8217;s (young adult) book whose name I do not know.<\/p>\n<p>I read the book in the early 1950&#8217;s, but would guess that based on the illustrations in the book it was probably written before or at the beginning of second world war.<\/p>\n<p>The book is the story of a child (possibly English) who collects toy soldiers which he uses to fight mock battles with other children. He is lured into fighting an unfair battle with his nemesis, and as a result loses all his soldiers. Due to circumstances that I do not remember he gets a chance to create a new army of toy soldiers which he uses to defeat his old enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The book is well illustrated, Showing WWI (or at least British) toy soldiers and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I do not remember anything else about the book. the cover was missing when i got it. It could have been published in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for a children&#8217;s (young adult) book whose name I do not know. I read the book in the early 1950&#8217;s, but would guess that based on the illustrations in the book it was probably written before or at the beginning of second world war. The book is the story of a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}