{"id":3299,"date":"2014-01-14T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2014-01-13T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T03:16:03","slug":"ill-go-with-the-domestic-cat-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Go with the Domestic Cat Myself …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Raschka:<\/a><\/strong> “I like the snail. You may find her (or him) a little ugly — too squishy. But all her life she works at her craft, adding to it day by day until, when she dies,
she leaves us something of great beauty.”<\/em>
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There’s a new “Eric Carle and Friends” book on shelves, and it’s called What’s Your Favorite Animal?<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Henry Holt, January 2014). “Eric Carle and Friends” means that all the royalties from this book will go to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art<\/a><\/strong> (also known in Jules’ world as My Dream Job). <\/p>\n

This book is simply fun<\/em>—Eric Carle asked thirteen illustrators to weigh in on their favorite animal with an illustration and some thoughts—and it’d be a wonderful writing prompt in an elementary classroom or library. No overriding narrative here — merely spread after spread of entertaining illustrations and thoughts on favorite animals from the likes of Erin Stead<\/a><\/strong>, Lane Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Mo Willems<\/a><\/strong>, Nick Bruel<\/a><\/strong>, Carle<\/a><\/strong> himself, and more. My favorite spread, which is from Chris Raschka<\/a><\/strong>, is pictured above. <\/p>\n

And I’ve got several more below. I’m working hard on my own writing deadline this month, but I had to take a break to share some of these — especially while we picture book enthusiasts (I speak here for myself and my Imp readers) wait on the Caldecott announcement (coming on January 27!<\/a><\/strong>) and while we wait on other 2014 picture book titles to start pouring in. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the art. Oh, and there’s more about the book here<\/a><\/strong> at the Carle site. <\/p>\n

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Eric Carle:<\/a><\/strong> “I have always liked all animals. But CATS are my favorites. …”<\/em>
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Peter S\u00eds:<\/a><\/strong> “…[M]y favorite creature of hope is the blue carp.”<\/em>
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Peter McCarty:<\/a><\/strong> “We have a bunny. … His name is Mr. Hopper,
and he is a real member of our family.”<\/em>
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Jon Klassen:<\/a><\/strong> “Most times when you see a duck in a story, it’s not very smart.
Usually it is in the middle of falling for a trick somebody is playing on it.
But I like ducks. I like watching them walk around.”<\/em>
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All art here is used with permission of Henry Holt and Company, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Raschka: “I like the snail. You may find her (or him) a little ugly — too squishy. But all her life she works at her craft, adding to it day by day until, when she dies,she leaves us something of great beauty.”(Click to enlarge) There’s a new “Eric Carle and Friends” book on shelves, […]<\/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-3299","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\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}