{"id":9045,"date":"2022-05-22T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2022-05-22T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:18:33","slug":"365g-large-dinosaur-made-from-egg-boxes-for-a-school-project-in-a-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/365g-large-dinosaur-made-from-egg-boxes-for-a-school-project-in-a-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"365G: Large dinosaur made from egg boxes for a school project in a garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Can you please help me track down a book from childhood?<br>I read it sometime between 1985 and 1988 (I think!) whilst at primary school in the UK.\u00a0Although it could have been an older book, maybe from the mid-70&#8217;s to the early 80&#8217;s?<br><strong>Book title: <\/strong>It was a chapter book, but I can&#8217;t recall the name at all, sorry!<br><strong>Front cover description:<\/strong> I remember it pretty clearly, it is a night time scene (a painted illustration) of the open garage door next to a house, with the large egg box dinosaur (t-rex?) visible inside, and the light spilling out from the garage illuminating the dark exterior driveway. It was quite an evocative image from what I remember.<br><strong>Description of the book:<\/strong> It is about a group of school friends (a gang or club maybe?) who make a large \/ life size dinosaur out of egg boxes (a t-rex I think?) for a school project\u00a0in the garage attached to one of the children&#8217;s houses. At some point I think a child from a rival gang \/ club spies on them, and the rivals (possibly?) end\u00a0up making their own egg box dinosaur as well (that could be wrong, but I&#8217;m pretty sure about them being spied on by a rival though).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you please help me track down a book from childhood?I read it sometime between 1985 and 1988 (I think!) whilst at primary school in the UK.\u00a0Although it could have been an older book, maybe from the mid-70&#8217;s to the early 80&#8217;s?Book title: It was a chapter book, but I can&#8217;t recall the name at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4,19],"tags":[213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045"}],"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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9046,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}