{"id":7274,"date":"2020-04-13T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:11:22","slug":"338b-if-pigs-could-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/338b-if-pigs-could-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"338B: &#8220;If Pigs Could Fly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>I am searching for a book from my childhood.\u00a0 I believe it is titled &#8220;If Pigs Could Fly&#8221;, but may be titled &#8220;When Pigs Fly&#8221;.\u00a0 It may have been a collection of stories or poems.\u00a0 The most memorable thing about the book were the illustrations.\u00a0 Intricate, stunning, and enchanting illustrations &#8230; almost magical.\u00a0 On the cover, there is some sort of kingdom &#8211; maybe a castle in the background.\u00a0 A young girl is riding a pig through the air, but she is only a small part of the cover illustration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My Inside Self, which I believe is a poem by Rachel Field, is one of the poems I recall.\u00a0 The illustration\u00a0is of a little girl, short and portly, standing in front of her mirror dressed as a ballerina.\u00a0 In her reflection in the mirror she sees a gorgeous, thin, delicate adult ballerina.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My mom thinks a British friend of hers gave us the book, so it&#8217;s possible it was a published in the UK (but not certain).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I would guess this book was published between 1987-1995.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have searched many, many databases and haven&#8217;t had luck.\u00a0 There are many other books with this title.\u00a0 One even has &#8220;funny poems for kids&#8221;&#8230; the one I&#8217;m looking for was more about dreaming big and reaching for the stars &#8212; I think!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am searching for a book from my childhood.\u00a0 I believe it is titled &#8220;If Pigs Could Fly&#8221;, but may be titled &#8220;When Pigs Fly&#8221;.\u00a0 It may have been a collection of stories or poems.\u00a0 The most memorable thing about the book were the illustrations.\u00a0 Intricate, stunning, and enchanting illustrations &#8230; almost magical.\u00a0 On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,14,19],"tags":[306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}