{"id":8159,"date":"2021-02-02T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2021-02-02T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:25:22","slug":"352b-children-travel-to-other-worlds-with-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/352b-children-travel-to-other-worlds-with-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"352B: Children travel to other worlds with animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It starts with some kids (possibly siblings, there are two or three kids) in, I think, a shop, a thrift, antique, or pawn shop, with no adults around and they are visited by these creatures. One is like a bear that talks in a phonetic southern-US style accent and one is like a dragonfly whose words allruntogetherlikethis. When I say &#8220;like&#8221; a bear and dragonfly, I think they were described as similar to these but not exactly the same.\u00a0I think the creatures come from the kids interacting with an object in the shop.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They visit other worlds or dimensions and at one point they&#8217;re in a desert and tiny bugs swarm them and try to get to the moisture in the kids&#8217; eyes and mouths so they have to keep them shut tight. They have to figure out how to outwit the antagonist without opening their eyes or mouths.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That&#8217;s all I remember. It was most likely written in the 70s or maybe 80s but definitely no later than mid-nineties. I read it around 2000 and it seemed old at the time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve spent so long looking for this because I just don&#8217;t believe no one else has read this and I think about it every time a gnat flies in my face! I feel like I&#8217;m in another dimension myself!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It starts with some kids (possibly siblings, there are two or three kids) in, I think, a shop, a thrift, antique, or pawn shop, with no adults around and they are visited by these creatures. One is like a bear that talks in a phonetic southern-US style accent and one is like a dragonfly whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,13,26,19],"tags":[234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159"}],"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=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}