{"id":2558,"date":"2013-05-02T07:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2013-05-02T07:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:30:35","slug":"shall-we-play-ball-and-see-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"Shall We Play Ball <em>and<\/em> See a Whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/ifyouwanttoseeawhalecover1.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Something to Prove cover1.jpg\" border=1><\/p>\n<p>Next week, Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook will release the latest picture book from Julie Fogliano, <em>if you want to see a whale<\/em>, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2296\">Erin E. Stead<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;ve got a review over at <em>BookPage<\/em>, if you&#8217;re so inclined to read my thoughts. That is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpage.com\/review\/if-you-want-to-see-a-whale\/whale-watching-for-little-ones\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I hope to follow up here at 7-Imp in the near future with some art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know Fogliano is the 2013 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award winner? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezra-jack-keats.org\/julie-fogliano-interview\/\">Here<\/a><\/strong> is an interview with her over at their site. <\/p>\n<p>Today at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;m chatting with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertskead.com\/\">Robert Skead<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thebrownbookshelf.com\/2009\/02\/10\/floyd-cooper\/\">Floyd Cooper<\/a><\/strong> about <em>Something to Prove: The Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe DiMaggio<\/em>, released by Carolrhoda Books in April. That conversation is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/lets-play-ball\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week here in 7-Imp Land, I&#8217;ll have some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook will release the latest picture book from Julie Fogliano, if you want to see a whale, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. I&#8217;ve got a review over at BookPage, if you&#8217;re so inclined to read my thoughts. That is here. I hope to follow up here at 7-Imp in the near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}