{"id":2076,"date":"2022-05-02T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:28:56","slug":"book-boy-meets-maria-by-peyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/02\/book-boy-meets-maria-by-peyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Boy Meets Maria by Peyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images3.penguinrandomhouse.com\/cover\/700jpg\/9781648276453\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The inside illustrations are just as lovely as this cover!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boy Meets Maria<br><\/strong>by Peyo<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/677513\/boy-meets-maria-by-peyo\/\">published by Penguin Random House<br><\/a>2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambitious and outgoing Taiga is eager to be a famous actor and play heroes.  At his school drama club, he immediately develops a crush on one of the girls on stage&#8230;  but while Maria was raised as a girl by her determined mother, off the stage, he is a brave and traumatized boy named Arima. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a beautiful story about love, bravery, and being true to yourself.  I was deeply moved, and impressed by both the quality of the illustrations and the sensitivity and strength of this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>I was crushed to learn that the extraordinarily talented young author, Peyo, recently passed away.) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy Meets Mariaby Peyopublished by Penguin Random House2021 Ambitious and outgoing Taiga is eager to be a famous actor and play heroes. At his school drama club, he immediately develops a crush on one of the girls on stage&#8230; but while Maria was raised as a girl by her determined mother, off the stage, he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/02\/book-boy-meets-maria-by-peyo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Boy Meets Maria by Peyo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-manga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}