{"id":2459,"date":"2012-11-14T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2012-11-14T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T06:01:29","slug":"some-very-possible-sketches-studies-art-before-breakfast-amy-hests-and-lauren-castillos-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Some Very Possible Sketches & Studies & Art Before Breakfast: Amy Hest’s and Lauren Castillo’s The Reader<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“Up and up he climbs, tilting in the wind, pulling in the blowing snow.”<\/em>
(Sketch and final spread; click second image to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n

Last week over at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote about Amy Hest’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, The Reader<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, illustrated by Lauren Castillo<\/a><\/strong>. If you missed it and want to know more about this beautiful book, you can head on over to that link<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I’m following up with some art from the book, as well as early sketches and studies from Lauren. <\/p>\n

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Early sketchbooks<\/em>
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In-progress dummy<\/em>
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Character studies<\/em>
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Character roughs<\/em>
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Color studies<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Final spread: “…and a long red sled with a long, loopy rope
for pulling through deep snow.”<\/em>
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Final spread: “He is good at waiting. The reader comes slowly, pulling his sled across the world. It is hard work, but he is good at working hard.”<\/em>
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Sketch and final spread: “And then he is there, at the top of the world.”<\/em>
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Final spread: “‘Here I am!’ says the reader to the dog. They make angels …
snowballs … more angels … and a snow dog for the dog.”<\/em>
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Final spread: “A book. The very best book. ‘<\/em>Two Good Friends,’ says the reader to the dog, and he opens the book to the very first page. The dog waits. It is hard,
but he is good at waiting. And then at last the reader reads.”<\/em>
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THE READER. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Amy Hest. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2012 by Lauren Castillo. Published by Amazon Children’s Publishing. All images here reproduced by permission of Lauren Castillo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Up and up he climbs, tilting in the wind, pulling in the blowing snow.”(Sketch and final spread; click second image to enlarge) Last week over at Kirkus, I wrote about Amy Hest’s newest picture book, The Reader, illustrated by Lauren Castillo. If you missed it and want to know more about this beautiful book, you […]<\/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-2459","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\/2459","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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}