{"id":3243,"date":"2013-10-27T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2013-10-26T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T00:00:49","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-354-featuring-melissa-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #354: Featuring Melissa Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Once Upon A Timeuse.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<p>Good morning to all. I&#8217;m doing something similar this week (to what I did last week). I wrote a review for the fine folks at <em>BookPage<\/em> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joanholub.com\">Joan Holub&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Little Red Writing<\/em> (Chronicle Books, September 2013), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1873\">Melissa Sweet<\/a><\/strong>. And since that review is up over at their site, I thought I&#8217;d link to it and share some art from the book. Melissa even sent some early sketches from the book, also posted below. <\/p>\n<p>So, to read about this very fun book (special heads-up to teachers of writing in the elementary grades), head on over <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpage.com\/review\/little-red-writing\/my-what-big-adjectives-you-have\">here<\/a><\/strong>. And the images are below. <\/p>\n<p>I thank Melissa for sharing the art and sketches today. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Braveleft.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Brave.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Braveright.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click second image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Principals Office.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_Interior_Principal's Officesmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 8.26.15 PMlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 8.26.15 PMsmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 8.27.16 PMlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 8.27.16 PMsmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge sketch)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 8.26.43 PMuse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little Red Writing_FC_Smallusewithborder.jpg\" border=1><\/p>\n<p><em>LITTLE RED WRITING. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Joan Holub. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Melissa Sweet. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco. Sketches reproduced by permission of Melissa Sweet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome. <\/p>\n<p><center><font size=3><strong>* * * Jules&#8217; Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>1)<\/strong><\/font> I finally got to see <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nekocase.com\/\">Neko Case<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> live. That was this past week here in Nashville, and she rocked hard. Oh-so hard. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>2)<\/strong><\/font> In just about two weeks is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauramarling.com\">Laura Marling<\/a><\/strong> show in Nashville. I&#8217;m psyched about that, too. <\/p>\n<p>This little in-studio performance was released this past week: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BU-E82tuhYk?list=PL64955007315C2825\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>3)<\/strong><\/font> Sound financial advice. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>4)<\/strong><\/font> A healing cat. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>5)<\/strong><\/font> Hot cocoa and warm blankets after a long, chilly, very outside kind of day. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>6)<\/strong><\/font> Spending all day one day this week with this one: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/adaboofieldtripsunlight.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>7)<\/strong><\/font> Good job news for my friends. <\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><font size=4>YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Good morning to all. I&#8217;m doing something similar this week (to what I did last week). I wrote a review for the fine folks at BookPage of Joan Holub&#8217;s Little Red Writing (Chronicle Books, September 2013), illustrated by Melissa Sweet. And since that review is up over at their site, I thought I&#8217;d link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}