{"id":3508,"date":"2014-08-28T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2014-08-27T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T04:19:26","slug":"early-sketches-and-outtakes-and-art-and-suchfrom-peter-brown-who-is-not-really-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Early Sketches and Outtakes and Art and Such<br>from Peter Brown (Who is Not Really a Monster)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/16-17originaluse.jpg\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s right. Despite <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3497\">photographic evidence<\/a><\/strong> from last week, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1920\">Peter Brown<\/a><\/strong> is not actually a monster. <\/p>\n<p>Since I chatted (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/teachers-are-people-too\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>) last week with Peter about his newest book, <em>My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I am Not.)<\/em>, published by Little, Brown, I&#8217;m following up today with some images he sent &#8212; some final art from the book but also early sketches, an outtake, etc. The early sketch above cracks. me. up. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_3small.jpeg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Final art: &#8220;Bobby had a big problem at school. Her name was Ms. Kirby. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_5small.jpeg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Final art: &#8220;Bobby spent his free time in the park, trying to forget his teacher problems. But one Saturday morning, on the way to his favorite spot,<br \/>Bobby found a terrible surprise.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/InTree02use.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/14-15e.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/14-15esmall.jpeg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Early versions<\/em><br \/>(Click second image to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_7.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/Brown_MyTeachersAMonster_7small.jpeg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Final spread: &#8220;Bobby wanted to run! He wanted to hide!<br \/>But he knew that would only make things worse.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/26-27large.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/26-27small.jpeg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Outtake<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/26-27large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/26-27small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>Early spread<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/myteacherisamonstercover.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>MY TEACHER IS A MONSTER! (NO, I AM NOT.) Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Peter Brown. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York. All images here produced by permission of Peter Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; That&#8217;s right. Despite photographic evidence from last week, Peter Brown is not actually a monster. Since I chatted (here) last week with Peter about his newest book, My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I am Not.), published by Little, Brown, I&#8217;m following up today with some images he sent &#8212; some final art from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}