{"id":20760,"date":"2013-06-25T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=20760"},"modified":"2014-05-08T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:59:08","slug":"bellas-rules-by-elissa-haden-guest-illustrated-by-abigail-halpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/bellas-rules-by-elissa-haden-guest-illustrated-by-abigail-halpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella&#8217;s Rules by Elissa Haden Guest, illustrated by Abigail Halpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/Bellas-Rules.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26460\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/Bellas-Rules-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Bella's Rules\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>Meet irresistible, rambunctious, adorable Bella &#8230; who so resembles two teenagers who seem to have taken over my own house, ahem! &#8220;Bella knew the family rules, but she liked her own rules much, <em>much<\/em> better.&#8221; The &#8220;no such thing as bedtime&#8221; seems an especially revered, universal kiddie convention!<\/p>\n<p>Bella gleefully exhausts her parents and utterly controls her befuddled babysitter &#8230; but maybe her grandmother will know what to do. When Granny arrives, she brings with her a most exciting &#8220;love at first sight&#8221;-gift: Puppy!<\/p>\n<p>No matter how lovable he is, however, &#8220;&#8230; sometimes Puppy&#8217;s behavior was too wild, too rude and too risky!&#8221; Sound familiar? With Mommy, Daddy, and Granny&#8217;s help, Bella starts teaching Puppy a few new routines\u00a0\u2013\u00a0no jumping on the counter, no peeing indoors \u2013\u00a0making life that much easier (and happier!) for everyone in the family. Yes, rules can do that! What a concept! &#8220;Of course, every once in a while a rule is meant to be broken,&#8221; Bella ponders. But that&#8217;s a whole other story, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elissahadenguest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elissa Haden Guest<\/a>&#8216;s exuberant morality tale finds perfectly matched synergy with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theodesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abigail Halpin<\/a>&#8216;s exhilarating illustrations. The look on Bella&#8217;s parents&#8217; faces will be humorously familiar, babysitter Sammy&#8217;s shock so recognizable, and Granny&#8217;s knowing understanding oh so comforting. Bella, of course, is the major star, able to go from delighted to distraught in a nanosecond flat. Her charm is limitless &#8230; mud shampoos and plate sculptures aside, she just might inspire you to reclaim some of your crazy childish adventures, too.<\/p>\n<p>Just try not to break tooooo many rules! And don&#8217;t let the kids catch you! We&#8217;re <em>supposed<\/em> to be responsible adults, right??!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet irresistible, rambunctious, adorable Bella &#8230; who so resembles two teenagers who seem to have taken over my own house, ahem! &#8220;Bella knew the family rules, but she liked her own rules much, much better.&#8221; The &#8220;no such thing as bedtime&#8221; seems an especially revered,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,60],"tags":[451,452,6608,453,135,160,39,64],"class_list":["post-20760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","tag-abigail-halpin","tag-bellas-rules","tag-bookdragon","tag-elissa-haden-guest","tag-grandparents","tag-kiddie-fun","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-pets-animals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bella&#039;s Rules by Elissa Haden Guest, illustrated by Abigail Halpin - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/bellas-rules-by-elissa-haden-guest-illustrated-by-abigail-halpin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bella&#039;s Rules by Elissa Haden Guest, illustrated by Abigail Halpin - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meet irresistible, rambunctious, adorable Bella &#8230; who so resembles two teenagers who seem to have taken over my own house, ahem! 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