{"id":3375,"date":"2014-04-10T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2014-04-08T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:04:14","slug":"i-like-dahlov-ipcars-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"I Like Dahlov Ipcar’s Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I wish I were a keeper in a great big zoo —
with elephants and camels and ponies to ride.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n

First up, a quick blog-scheduling note, though I don’t know that I have any blog readers who pay attention this<\/em> closely. (“Blog-scheduling” is making me giggle, ’cause I really don’t have much of a schedule—as in, I mostly fly by the seat of my pants around here—but that’s neither here nor there.) <\/p>\n

Where was I?<\/p>\n

Oh, right. When I write any<\/em>thing over at Kirkus<\/em>, I always follow up here at 7-Imp one week later with art from the books I write about. Kirkus<\/em> doesn’t ask me to do this; it’s purely a 7-Imp thing. It’s ’cause I start to get twitchy when I can’t see illustrations from the books. (Sketches are even more fun to see.) <\/p>\n

All that’s to say that today I’d normally have some art and maybe even early sketches from Laurie Keller’s<\/a><\/strong> Arnie the Doughnut<\/em> chapter books, because we chatted last week<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em>. I will be posting those follow-up images, but it’ll be most likely next week, since Laurie is traveling now — which also works out for me, because as you read this, I’m traveling myself, near Boston for work.<\/p>\n

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But what I can bring you today are some spreads from Flying Eye Book’s newly-remastered edition of Dahlov Ipcar’s<\/a><\/strong> I Like Animals<\/em>. If you missed it last week, I wrote over at Kirkus<\/em> about the impressive care Flying Eye put into the re-mastering of this book, originally published in 1960. That column is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the art, and see you tomorrow … <\/p>\n

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“I like animals. All kinds of animals.
Plain ones, strange ones, little ones, big ones. …”<\/em>
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/center><\/p>\n

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“I’d have a cage full of pelicans and toucans and flamingos,
macaws and cockatoos and birds of paradise. …”<\/em>
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“I’d have all kinds of puppies … “<\/em>
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/center><\/p>\n

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I LIKE ANIMALS. All artwork, characters and text are \u00a9 1960 Dahlov Ipcar. \u00a9 2014 edition Flying Eye Books. Spread reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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