{"id":3333,"date":"2014-02-27T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2014-02-25T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:42:12","slug":"a-spot-of-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"A Spot of Sunshine …"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“These books are loyal friends, helping you explore,
dream, discover, think, learn, and know much, much more.”
Early sketch and final spread<\/em>
(Click second image to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n

Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted with illustrator Shadra Strickland<\/a><\/strong> about her latest illustrated picture book, Toni<\/a><\/strong> and Slade Morrison’s<\/a><\/strong> Please, Louise<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Paula Wiseman\/Simon & Schuster, March 2014), as well as a few other things. That Q&A was here<\/a><\/strong> (in which Shadra referred to Louise as a “spot of sunshine on each page”). <\/p>\n

Today, I’m following up with a bit of art and sketches from the book (the two sketches below are preliminary ideas that didn’t make it into the book, Shadra tells me), and I thank her for sharing. <\/p>\n

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Early sketches<\/em>
(Click each to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n

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“Imagination is an open door.
Step in here and let it soar.”
<\/em>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n

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Cover<\/em>
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PLEASE, LOUISE. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Toni Morrison and the Estate of Slade Morrison. Illustrations \u00a9 2014 by Shadra Strickland. Published by Paula Wiseman\/Simon & Schuster, New York. All images here reproduced by permission of Shadra Strickland.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“These books are loyal friends, helping you explore,dream, discover, think, learn, and know much, much more.”Early sketch and final spread(Click second image to enlarge) Last week at Kirkus, I chatted with illustrator Shadra Strickland about her latest illustrated picture book, Toni and Slade Morrison’s Please, Louise (Paula Wiseman\/Simon & Schuster, March 2014), as well as […]<\/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-3333","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\/3333","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=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}