{"id":1977,"date":"2010-08-10T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2010-08-10T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T06:01:57","slug":"checking-in-with-tricia-tusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Checking in with Tricia Tusa…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“From the day she could talk, Lizzie loved to tell stories. Tall ones. True ones.
Funny ones. Sad ones. Lizzie loved them all.”<\/em>
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It’s been two years since my breakfast interview<\/a><\/strong> with author\/illustrator Tricia Tusa, whose work I love so very much. She’s got a new illustrated title out, Once Upon a Baby Brother<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2010), written by Sarah Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>, so I thought I’d share some spreads from it today. <\/p>\n

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There is far from a dearth of picture book titles about new baby siblings in the family, but this one stands out. Lizzie, as you can see above, loves to tell stories. Then, her little brother, Marvin, comes along, and no one in the family’s got time to hear her tales anymore. She excels in school, however, what with her story-loving teacher, Miss Pennyroyal. Excels, that is, until Marvin goes to visit Gramma and “something was missing.” She even runs out of story ideas. When Marvin returns, wrecking his usual havoc, she’s inspired to create her own comic book character out of him, which means, yes, we get to see Tricia try her hand at some comics-within-a-story, those moments of the book rather reminiscent of Mini Grey<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kirkus<\/em> calls it a “fresh take on the new-sibling theme with an empowering female character.” <\/p>\n

Here’s another spread from it. Enjoy Tricia’s bright watercolors. You can click all of these to supersize them and see them in more detail. <\/p>\n

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“She made up fairy tales to share with her father during their hikes up Mount Tilapia. <\/em>After slaying dragons in the forest, the princess gave a surprise birthday party for the king. She spun yarns for Big George.<\/em> The beautiful girl and her handsome dog took a rocket to the moon and discovered a new planet in the solar system.”<\/center><\/p>\n

Note:<\/em> I see that Tricia also illustrated this title<\/a><\/strong> from Hyperion in 2010, which I have yet to see. Perhaps other Tusa fans can weigh in?<\/p>\n

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ONCE UPON A BABY BROTHER \u00a9 2010 by Sarah Sullivan. Illustrations \u00a9 2010 by Tricia Tusa. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“From the day she could talk, Lizzie loved to tell stories. Tall ones. True ones.Funny ones. Sad ones. Lizzie loved them all.”(Click to enlarge.) It’s been two years since my breakfast interview with author\/illustrator Tricia Tusa, whose work I love so very much. She’s got a new illustrated title out, Once Upon a Baby Brother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","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=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}