{"id":3283,"date":"2013-12-19T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2014-01-23T22:58:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T04:58:26","slug":"a-rather-dryly-witty-fellowshares-some-art-and-dummy-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Rather Dryly Witty Fellow’
Shares Some Art and Dummy Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early dummy image for the cover of <\/em>Little Santa
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Final art: “And you know the rest of the story.”<\/em>
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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> with author-illustrator Jon Agee<\/a><\/strong> about a few things, including his newest picture book, Little Santa<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Dial, October 2013). Today, I’m following up with some art from the book, as well as some dummy images Jon sent along (which he explains in the Q&A, but I’ll be sure to put captions below each of those images). <\/p>\n

Jon also talked in one response about picture book publishing in the early ’80s “when publishing was a quieter, slower, leaner business, and the editorial staff still held reign over sales and marketing. I was a complete unknown, and yet I could meet face-to-face with editors, like Frances Foster and Margaret McElderry. Or receive inspiring rejection letters from Walter Lorraine and Gordon Lish.”<\/em> He shares below one of those rejection letters. It’s from Walter Lorraine. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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Early dummy image<\/em>
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Early dummy image, the version where Santa
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Early dummy image, the version in which Santa is an only child<\/em>
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The inspiring rejection letter from editor Walter Lorraine, 1981<\/em>
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Final art from the book:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Santa dug the reindeer out of the snow. ‘G-g-gosh!’ said the reindeer.
‘What are you doing out here?’ Santa told the reindeer about his family.
‘Hop on my back,’ said the reindeer. ‘We’ll look for help.'”<\/em>
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(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“‘Look, everybody!’ said Santa. ‘These are my new friends!’
‘Welcome,’ said Santa’s family.”<\/em>
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Final cover<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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LITTLE SANTA. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Jon Agee. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers. Other images reproduced by permission of Jon Agee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early dummy image for the cover of Little Santa(Click to enlarge) Final art: “And you know the rest of the story.”(Click to enlarge) Last week at Kirkus, I chatted here with author-illustrator Jon Agee about a few things, including his newest picture book, Little Santa (Dial, October 2013). Today, I’m following up with some art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}