{"id":1311,"date":"2016-06-07T05:54:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-06-07T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:54:06","slug":"nobody-likes-a-goblin-by-ben-hatke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Likes a Goblin, by Ben Hatke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review copy provided by First Second Books.<\/p>\n

Ben Hatke’s books have ranged from the nearly-wordless Little Robot<\/em><\/a> to the far more verbal Zita the Spacegirl<\/em><\/a> series. My personal favorite is probably Julia’s House for Lost Creatures<\/em><\/a>, a charming and beautiful tale.<\/p>\n

Nobody Likes a Goblin<\/em> is toward the young and simple end of Hatke’s range. Goblin lives in his dungeon with his friend Skeleton. They have a routine they like, games they play. But–as you might expect–there is a certain type of person who does not like goblins.<\/p>\n

Luckily, there is another type who does.<\/p>\n

The plot is simple, the style unmistakable, the ending sweet but not as cloying as it could be given the premise. Nobody Likes a Goblin<\/em> is unlikely to change your world, but it might well take a young reader’s fancy–or even more likely, a pre-reader’s. A fantasy reader who wants to start young minds dungeon crawling early could do worse than Nobody Likes a Goblin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Please consider using our link to buy\u00a0Nobody Likes a Goblin <\/em>from Amazon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review copy provided by First Second Books. Ben Hatke’s books have ranged from the nearly-wordless Little Robot to the far more verbal Zita the Spacegirl series. My personal favorite is probably Julia’s House for Lost Creatures, a charming and beautiful tale. Nobody Likes a Goblin is toward the young and simple end of Hatke’s range. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}