{"id":2420,"date":"2012-09-05T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:23:28","slug":"in-which-i-ramble-about-my-love-for-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Ramble About My Love for Picture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/48830371\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously here at 7-Imp, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlewick.com\/\">Candlewick Press<\/a><\/strong> is celebrating picture books for one entire year, given their 20th anniversary, and they&#8217;re celebrating with a series of videos. Authors, illustrators, bloggers, and other book-lovers have made video tributes to picture books, and Candlewick will be sharing them at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingstartshere.com\/\">this site<\/a><\/strong>. (If you missed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/100scopenotes.com\/2012\/08\/31\/a-conversation-in-books-literally\/\">this video<\/a><\/strong> from my co-author, the entertaining <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schoollibraryjournal.com\/afuse8production\">Betsy Bird<\/a><\/strong>, and the one and only <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/100scopenotes.com\">Travis Jonker<\/a><\/strong>, then drop everything now and watch it, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s fun. They pretty much did it up as right as right can be.)<\/p>\n<p>My video is up today. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingstartshere.com\/post\/30932816087\/julie-discusses-picture-books\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the link, or you can watch it above. If you&#8217;re going to watch it, you might want to grab a cup of coffee or a pillow, since I may or may not ramble a tiny bit. <\/p>\n<p>Hey, ask a girl to talk about picture books, and that just happens. <\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD: Just found their thus-far video archives. Good stuff. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingstartshere.com\/archive\">Here<\/a><\/strong> it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously here at 7-Imp, Candlewick Press is celebrating picture books for one entire year, given their 20th anniversary, and they&#8217;re celebrating with a series of videos. Authors, illustrators, bloggers, and other book-lovers have made video tributes to picture books, and Candlewick will be sharing them at this site. (If you missed this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}