{"id":3314,"date":"2014-02-04T23:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T05:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2014-02-04T23:14:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T05:14:19","slug":"a-bit-of-art-from-laura-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Art from Laura Carlin &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9780763666330.int.1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9780763666330.int.1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Nothing grew. Everything was broken. No one ever smiled.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I chatted with British picture book author and zoologist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicola-davies.com\/\">Nicola Davies<\/a><\/strong> about her newest picture book, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780763666330\">The Promise<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick, March 2014), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lauracarlin.blogspot.com\/\">Laura Carlin<\/a><\/strong>. I already linked to that here at 7-Imp, yet I completely forgot to share the spread from the book that I have on hand. <\/p>\n<p>So, here it is today, a Laura Carlin-moment. (And, in case you missed it, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/connecting-our-world\/\">here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the Q&#038;A with Nicola.) <\/p>\n<p>Also, here&#8217;s a video I found online of Carlin discussing the book: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HjRgG4M3P8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/thepromisecover.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nUntil tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>THE PROMISE. Text copyright \u00a9 2013 by Nicola Davies. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Laura Carlin. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing grew. Everything was broken. No one ever smiled.&#8221;(Click to enlarge spread) A couple of weeks ago, I chatted with British picture book author and zoologist Nicola Davies about her newest picture book, The Promise (Candlewick, March 2014), illustrated by Laura Carlin. I already linked to that here at 7-Imp, yet I completely forgot to [&hellip;]<\/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-3314","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\/3314","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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}