{"id":772,"date":"2016-12-08T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=772"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:25:14","slug":"christmas-tree-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2016\/12\/08\/christmas-tree-land\/","title":{"rendered":"8th December – Christmas Tree Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

#ChristmasCountdown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a>

Illustration from ‘Christmas Tree Land<\/a>‘ by Mrs Molesworth, 1891, titled ‘See, Rollo,’ cried Maia; ‘see, there is our Christmas tree.’ (Chorley 133)<\/p><\/div>\n

Illustration taken from ‘Christmas Tree Land’, by Mrs Moleswoth. Illustrated by Walter Crane<\/p>\n

‘See, Rollo,’ cried Maia; ‘see, there is our Christmas tree.’<\/em>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 And there it was – the most beautiful they had yet seen – all radiant with light and glistening with every pretty present child-hearted could desire.’\u00a0<\/em>(pg. 221)<\/p>\n

The story tells of two children, Rollo and Maia, who arrive in a land of Christmas trees and their adventures in the white castle, the fir-woods, the mysterious cottage and many more.<\/p>\n

This book is part of the Sarah Chorley Collection<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#ChristmasCountdown Illustration taken from ‘Christmas Tree Land’, by Mrs Moleswoth. Illustrated by Walter Crane ‘See, Rollo,’ cried Maia; ‘see, there is our Christmas tree.’ \u00a0 \u00a0 And there it was – the most beautiful they had yet seen – all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[197,23,76,201,200,199,198,187],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmascountdown","tag-childrens-literature","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-tree-land","tag-fairy-tales","tag-mrs-molesworth","tag-sarah-chorley","tag-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}