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In SPRING, And, in Summer, “Yellow melts \/ everything it touches . . . \/ smells like butter, \/ tastes like salt.”<\/p>\n If you’re not familiar with Sidman’s work, you’ll be treating yourself to read more of her titles. Check out these links for more information: Tricia’s Poetry-Makers interview<\/strong><\/a> with Joyce from April at The Miss Rumphius Effect<\/em>; Elaine Magliaro’s 2008 interview<\/strong><\/a> at Wild Rose Reader<\/em>; and Kelly Fineman’s 2007 interview<\/strong><\/a> at the Cybils’ site. Perhaps one day I can convince Joyce to stop by 7-Imp.<\/p>\n As for Pamela, she’ll be visiting for a seven-questions-over-breakfast interview soon. For this interview, she sent over one hundred samples of her illustration. Yes, one hundred. For which I give seven loud woo hoo!<\/em>s. While she’s finishing up that interview, she gave me permission to post some images today, ’cause I can’t help it. (These two, incidentally, are not from the title mentioned today.)<\/p>\n Don’t forget to check out Red Sings<\/em>… The very pages<\/em> in this one sing. It’s a truly beautiful book.<\/p>\n Here’s another image from Pamela — for those of you who know what it’s like to be close buds with the strange. Before breakfast even. Enjoy. <\/p>\n All illustrations \u00a9 2009 and courtesy of Pamela Zagarenski. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is art from illustrator Pamela Zagarenski. I fell in love with her detailed, intricate, folk-art-esque mixed-media art—with the highly stylized characters therein—the first time I saw it. Have you all seen Joyce Sidman’s Red Sings from Treetrops: A Year in Colors, the most recent illustrated title of Pamela’s? It was released by Houghton Mifflin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/redsings11.jpg\")
This is art from illustrator Pamela Zagarenski. I fell in love with her detailed, intricate, folk-art-esque mixed-media art—with the highly stylized characters therein—the first time I saw it. Have you all seen Joyce Sidman’s<\/strong><\/a> Red Sings from Treetrops: A Year in Colors<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the most recent illustrated title of Pamela’s? It was released by Houghton Mifflin in April, and it is a wonder. It’s a poetry collection which celebrates the changing of the seasons — but through the lens of color<\/em>. And I mean color in ways you hadn’t considered experiencing it — hearing, tasting, and even smelling it. <\/p>\n
\nRed<\/strong><\/font> sings
\nfrom treetops:
\ncheer-cheer-cheer<\/em>,
\neach note dropping
\nlike a cherry
\ninto my ear…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/friend-to-the-strange-web1.jpg\")
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