{"id":3277,"date":"2013-12-10T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:52:45","slug":"the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"The Line<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a really quick post (because work calls) to show some artwork from Paula Bossio<\/a><\/strong>, who has also worked as a graphic designer and art director and who currently lives in Spain. In fact, this wordless title was originally published in Spain in 2011 as El l\u00e1piz<\/em>. <\/p>\n

This book is called The Line<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, and this English edition was released by Kids Can Press in September. It’s the tale of a young girl who finds—you guessed it—a line, and she immediately picks it up to play with it. I don’t want to give a lot of the story away (especially the ending, which is probably a love-it or hate-it kind of closing for many readers), but the line becomes many things to her, as you can see in the illustrations below. Is it her imagination at work or something else? <\/p>\n

Bossio’s pencil lines are very loose (well, those lines that aren’t the<\/em> line itself, that is, which is of course super<\/em> loose), and things get dramatic in this tale. The girl goes from glee to fear to tears in the span of several spreads. It’s a simple tale, stripped down to its basics in these uncluttered spreads, with Bossio showing that a lot can be done with a little. <\/p>\n

Told you this would be brief. Back to work. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the illustrations. <\/p>\n

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THE LINE. English edition published in 2013 by Kids Can Press, Toronto. Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Paula Bossio. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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