{"id":9043,"date":"2022-05-22T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:08:44","slug":"365f-inventions-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/365f-inventions-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"365F: Inventions for Children (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Can you please help me find a book I read at primary school??<br>I read it in <strong>1985<\/strong> or <strong>86<\/strong> (87 at the very latest) when I was in primary school in the <strong>UK<\/strong>.<br>I would have been 7 or 8 years old.<br><strong>Book title:<\/strong> Possibly &#8216;Inventions for Children&#8217; \/ &#8216;Top Secret Inventions for Children&#8217; (but that&#8217;s just a guess, as I really don&#8217;t remember!)<br><strong>Book description:<\/strong> It was a hardback picture book. Each page, which were mostly double page spreads I think, had roughly 2 to 3 fictional inventions on (all aimed at children).<br>Some of the inventions I can remember: an armoured vehicle for a child, driving down a street (narrowly missing a cat and a lamp post I think??). Some kind of periscope \/ binoculars that let you hide behind your desk in school without the teacher noticing (possibly in the shape of a boy sitting upright??). Some little booster rockets (disguised as decorative circular medals?) that went on your swimming trunks to make you swim faster.<br>I remember all \/ nearly all of the inventions having a cross-section \/ cutaway section to them, so you could see the internal mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s about all I can remember, it&#8217;s been driving me slightly crazy for years (having tracked down nearly all the other books I loved as a child already).<br>I will give you any more information if I can, just let me know!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you please help me find a book I read at primary school??I read it in 1985 or 86 (87 at the very latest) when I was in primary school in the UK.I would have been 7 or 8 years old.Book title: Possibly &#8216;Inventions for Children&#8217; \/ &#8216;Top Secret Inventions for Children&#8217; (but that&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,18],"tags":[213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043"}],"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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9073,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}