{"id":2434,"date":"2012-09-28T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2012-09-30T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:30:17","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-morningplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-klaas-verplancke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Morning,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Klaas Verplancke"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Early sketch and final spread from Klaas Verplancke’s <\/em>Applesauce
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Esm\u00e9 Raji Codell’s<\/a><\/strong> Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John “Appleseed” Chapman<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins<\/a><\/strong>. That link will be here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about Klaas Verplancke’s<\/a><\/strong> Applesauce<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a 2010 Belgian import published here in the States by Groundwood Books this past July. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

This morning, I’ve got some spreads from the book, and Klaas also generously shares some early ballpoint-pen sketches. The first three images are character studies based on a self-portrait drawn by Klaas’s son Pieterjan, pictured here, whose questions were the inspiration for the book. <\/p>\n


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Final art: Click on second image to spread in its entirety<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Final art: “A thunder daddy is no fun. Stupid Daddy<\/strong><\/font>, I think.”<\/em>
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Final art: “But then suddenly it’s quiet. I smell applesauce<\/strong><\/font>.”<\/em>
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APPLESAUCE. English translation copyright \u00a9 2012 by Helen Mixter. Published in 2012 by Groundwood Books, Toronto. Final spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher. Sketches reproduced by permission of Klaas Verplancke.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early sketch and final spread from Klaas Verplancke’s Applesauce(Click to enlarge second image)   This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Esm\u00e9 Raji Codell’s Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John “Appleseed” Chapman, illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins. That link will be here. * * * Last week, I wrote about Klaas […]<\/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-2434","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\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}