{"id":257,"date":"2006-10-31T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=257"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:02:16","slug":"if-the-wolves-come-out-of-the-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"If the Wolves Come Out of the Walls . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image256\" height=96 alt=wolves.gif src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/wolves.thumbnail.gif\" \/>We&#8217;ve already mentioned the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=206\">two best new scary (and funny and clever) books<\/a><\/strong> to creep out your favorite kid today, but I&#8217;m doing a quick All Hallow&#8217;s Eve shout-out for another great spooky, creepy, scary book &#8212; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mousecircus.com\/witw\/flash\/witw_flash.html\">The Wolves in the Walls<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckean-art.co.uk\/\">Dave McKean<\/a><\/strong>. Published in &#8217;03, it features another of Gaiman&#8217;s daring and defiant female protagonists, Lucy, who is just sure there are wolves in the walls. And, as everyone knows, if the wolves come out of the walls, it&#8217;s all over &#8212; or so Lucy is told, but she&#8217;s brave enough to battle them. McKean even got a New York Times Best Illustrated Children&#8217;s Books of the Year award (2003) for this one. And well-deserved it was, as he seems at the top of his game with this visual romp. As <em>School Library Journal<\/em> described it, McKean used &#8220;painted people; scratchy ink-lined wolves; and photographed, computer-manipulated images&#8221; with four panels on some pages, giving it a nice graphic novel feel. And, yes, it&#8217;s hair-raising and shuddersome, as a good scary book should be, but it&#8217;s hysterical, too. So, pick this one up today in the spirit of getting creeped out. Oh, and there is a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.co.uk\/index.asp\">staged production<\/a><\/strong> of the book (&#8220;for everyone over 7 who is not a scaredy cat&#8221;) that will arrive in the U.S. in early 2008. Check out this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.co.uk\/wolves\/\">creepy ad<\/a><\/strong> for it (information about the production and the links come from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fusenumber8.blogspot.com\/\">Fuse #8&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> ever-informative site). Woo hoo! Though I doubt it&#8217;ll come to Nashville (wah wah), maybe Eisha can catch it for me in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already mentioned the two best new scary (and funny and clever) books to creep out your favorite kid today, but I&#8217;m doing a quick All Hallow&#8217;s Eve shout-out for another great spooky, creepy, scary book &#8212; The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. Published in &#8217;03, it features [&hellip;]<\/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-257","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\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}