{"id":3446,"date":"2016-04-20T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:51:38","slug":"260g-an-east-indian-mid-century-illustrated-childrens-book-parrot-and-a-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/260g-an-east-indian-mid-century-illustrated-childrens-book-parrot-and-a-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"260G: An East Indian (Mid Century Illustrated) Children&#8217;s Book: Parrot and a Princess (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This book is one of a series of books by a female illustrator (and for some reason I think she has an Asian name).\u00a0 They are all different stories from different cultures.\u00a0 The one I am searching for (and found years ago on a site from Australia when I still remembered the actual name but neglected to write it down) is a story about an East Indian Prince who listens to a parrot\u2019s advice about a Princess.\u00a0 The Princess has many sisters and an overbearing father.\u00a0 The Prince is cast out into the wild, I think he\u2019s beaten up by other Princes, and the parrot is there with him to give him advice.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember if the parrot is more of a trickster parrot who gets the Prince into trouble, or a helpful parrot. \u00a0I think they end up together (Prince &amp; Princess) and I don\u2019t know what happens to the parrot. Regardless, the illustrations are simply beautiful and with crisp and clear colours belonging to the mid-century era of illustration.\u00a0 I believe it\u2019s oriented landscape, about 8\u201dx11\u201d (or smaller, but not by much), and it\u2019s paperback.\u00a0 My Mum bought it in the early 1970s Victoria, BC, Canada, but I\u2019m not sure if she bought it used or new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is one of a series of books by a female illustrator (and for some reason I think she has an Asian name).\u00a0 They are all different stories from different cultures.\u00a0 The one I am searching for (and found years ago on a site from Australia when I still remembered the actual name but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,11,26,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446"}],"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=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}