{"id":2484,"date":"2012-12-19T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:01:11","slug":"an-ashley-bryan-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"An Ashley Bryan Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Oh, come with me!’ the boy exclaimed. \/ My stable’s a warm place. \/
‘My animals will welcome you, \/ I’ll sweep and clear a space.'”<\/em>
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So, I was going to write all about Ashley Bryan’s<\/a><\/strong> beautiful, new picture book, Who Built the Stable? A Nativity Poem<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, released by Atheneum in October. Then I remembered that this Q&A with Ashley<\/a><\/strong>, conducted by Jenny Brown, is over at the Kirkus<\/em> Book Blog Network. Therefore, I send you over there, should you want to read more about the book. (And here<\/a><\/strong>, for the record, is Kirkus’<\/em> starred review of the book.) <\/p>\n

Here’s an interview excerpt: <\/p>\n

The story is of a boy working with people of many backgrounds. I wanted the richness of the region: Africa and Egypt, and the bridge across into the Sinai Peninsula. The boy has this feeling of openness; the couple could have had the look of anyone in his father’s carpentry shop. He was not afraid of people, and he was able to see [Mary and Joseph] were people who needed help. The desire of the child, when they see someone in need, is to help. Jesus reached out to those in need: the widow, the sick, the lame. It’s the basic meaning of our lives on this Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(I think, no matter your theological inclination, you can get behind this wonderful notion, yes?)<\/p>\n

Holy whoa, do I love his art. It’s like the sun breaking through the clouds. Here’s another spread. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“He watered them at sunrise \/ Where they’d graze and freely roam. \/
He called to them at sunset— \/ ‘Follow me!’—and led them home.”<\/em>
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WHO BUILT THE STABLE? A NATIVITY POEM. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Ashley Bryan. Published by Atheneum, New York. Spreads reproduced with permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Oh, come with me!’ the boy exclaimed. \/ My stable’s a warm place. \/‘My animals will welcome you, \/ I’ll sweep and clear a space.’”(Click to enlarge spread) So, I was going to write all about Ashley Bryan’s beautiful, new picture book, Who Built the Stable? A Nativity Poem, released by Atheneum in October. Then […]<\/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-2484","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\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}