{"id":2595,"date":"2013-07-04T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2013-07-04T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T21:44:27","slug":"wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"<em>Wild Things<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/WildThings-postcardALA-updates.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/WildThings-postcardALA-updatessmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge &#8212; Hey, I never thought I&#8217;d type that about<br \/>something with my own name on it)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because some of you who weren&#8217;t at this past weekend&#8217;s ALA conference have asked me: This is the postcard (cover anyway) that Candlewick made for distributing at this past weekend&#8217;s conference. This will not be the book&#8217;s final cover, but it&#8217;s the general idea. One of my ALA roomies&#8212;the one and only Allie Bruce, Children&#8217;s Librarian at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bankstreet.edu\/\">Bank Street College<\/a><\/strong> Library&#8212;read the beginning portion of our manuscript (since Betsy and I were actually in the same physical space and needed to wrap up some work on it) and didn&#8217;t scream in agony. She claims to have enjoyed it, in fact. Whew. <\/p>\n<p>I wish <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Peter D. Sieruta<\/a><\/strong> were here to see this cover, but the ALA event we had to honor and remember him (the primary reason I attended ALA this year) went well, and his brother, John Sieruta, gave him such a lovely tribute. Big thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundrymedia.com\/team\/stephen\">Stephen Barbara<\/a><\/strong> for organizing, hosting, sponsoring the entire event.<\/p>\n<p>Publication date should be April 2014!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge &#8212; Hey, I never thought I&#8217;d type that aboutsomething with my own name on it) Because some of you who weren&#8217;t at this past weekend&#8217;s ALA conference have asked me: This is the postcard (cover anyway) that Candlewick made for distributing at this past weekend&#8217;s conference. This will not be the book&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}