{"id":3387,"date":"2014-04-24T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:24:24","slug":"a-bit-of-belize-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Belize Before Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Back in the jungle, I know all the jaguars in the study area from their tracks. But one day I come across a completely new track—the biggest male jaguar tracks I have ever seen. I follow the prints for hours. Not wanting to be caught in the jungle at night without a flashlight, I turn around to go back to camp.
There, right behind me, is the jaguar.
He must have been following<\/em> me!”
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\nLast week, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> with Dr. Alan Rabinowitz<\/a><\/strong> about his picture book, A Boy and a Jaguar<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, May 2014), illustrated by Catia Chien<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

For those who’d like to see some art from the book, I share that here today. <\/p>\n

Until tomorrow … <\/p>\n

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“Later, in Belize, I am the first person to study jaguars.
The jungle makes me feel more alive than I have ever felt.”<\/em>
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“I lean toward him a little, the way I had at the Bronx Zoo so many years before.”<\/em>
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A BOY AND A JAGUAR. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Alan Rabinowitz. Illustrations \u00a9 2014 by Catia Chien. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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