{"id":3301,"date":"2015-09-08T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2020-09-01T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:56:19","slug":"the-knights-before-christmas-joan-holub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"{The Knights Before Christmas: Joan Holub}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><br \/>\n<strong>{Synopsis} &#8211;<\/strong> &#039;Twas December 24th, and three brave knights were just settling in for the night when out on the drawbridge, there arose such a clatter! The knights try everything to get rid of this unknown invader (Santa Claus!), a red and white knight with a fleet of dragons . . .<\/p>\n<p>But nothing would stop<br \/>\ntheir white-whiskered foe.<br \/>\nNo matter their efforts,<br \/>\nhe just would not go!<\/p>\n<p>This parody of Clement Clarke Moore&#039;s well-known poem &#039;Twas the Night Before Christmas is kid-friendly, clever, and just plain silly&#8211;sure to become a holiday classic of a different kind. <\/p>\n<p><strong>{My thoughts} &#8211;<\/strong> Joan Holub has done it again with an amazing picture book. I love how she has been able to take older tales and reshapes them into something remarkable. I personally cannot wait to take this book off the shelf and read it to my children on Christmas Eve this year. <\/p>\n<p>The Knights Before Christmas is just as the title suggests. It is a book that it based on the tale The Night Before Christmas. However, in this story it is about the Knights in a castle that are trying to protect the castle from Santa whom they believe is trying to invade. I really enjoyed how all the lines ran so smoothly and how it was so well put together, illustrations included that I could almost imagine it as being the original story. It was written in a way that it kept the rhythm and the familiarity of the original story for the readers to have the opportunity to be drown into each page as the story progressed. I smiled, I giggled and I laughed as I was reading through it. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations and the added phrases within the speech bubbles that helped to give humor as well as context to some of the pages. <\/p>\n<p>I strongly believe that this could become one of the next loved Christmas stories in modern day. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Conclusion:<\/strong> 5 Star Rating. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature-300x114.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/signature.png 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Synopsis} &#8211; &#039;Twas December 24th, and three brave knights were just settling in for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-christmas-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9926,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/9926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zapkodemarie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}