{"id":3400,"date":"2014-05-08T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2014-05-07T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:27:18","slug":"pett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"Pett."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Pett<\/a><\/strong>, that is. <\/p>\n

I like saying “Pett.” I like to imagine that when Mark Pett walks into a bar, his friends yell, “PETT”, \u00e0 la Norm Peterson<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Anyway. Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote about Mark’s newest picture book, The Girl and the Bicycle<\/em> (Simon & Schuster, April 2014). That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I like to read reviews. I read one reviewer refer to the “Capra-esque” worlds of Pett’s books. I like that. Capra<\/a><\/strong>-esque could<\/em> be entirely too much, depending on the illustrator, but Mark Pett does it just right. <\/p>\n

Here are some more spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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THE GIRL AND THE BICYCLE. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Mark Pett. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York. Illustrations used here by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Pett, that is. I like saying “Pett.” I like to imagine that when Mark Pett walks into a bar, his friends yell, “PETT”, \u00e0 la Norm Peterson. Anyway. Last week at Kirkus, I wrote about Mark’s newest picture book, The Girl and the Bicycle (Simon & Schuster, April 2014). That is here. I like […]<\/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-3400","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\/3400","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=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}