{"id":3519,"date":"2014-09-11T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2014-11-09T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T00:56:00","slug":"the-birds-and-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"The Birds and the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joyce Sidman’s “Winter Bees,”
illustrated by Rick Allen<\/em>
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David Elliott’s “The Hummingbird,”
illustrated by Becca Stadtlander<\/em>
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about two new picture book poetry collections — On the Wing<\/em> by David Elliott<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by newcomer Becca Stadtlander<\/a><\/strong> and, coming in November from Joyce Sidman<\/a><\/strong>, Winter Bees & Other Poems of the the Cold<\/em>, illustrated by Rick Allen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I’ve got art from each today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy.
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From Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Dream of the Tundra Swan” spread
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“Vole in Winter” spread<\/em>
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From On the Wing<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“The Cardinal”<\/em>
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ON THE WING. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by David Elliott. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Rebecca Stadtlander. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

WINTER BEES & OTHER POEMS OF THE COLD. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Joyce Sidman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Rick Allen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyce Sidman’s “Winter Bees,”illustrated by Rick Allen(Click to enlarge) David Elliott’s “The Hummingbird,”illustrated by Becca Stadtlander(Click to enlarge)   Last week at Kirkus, I wrote here about two new picture book poetry collections — On the Wing by David Elliott and illustrated by newcomer Becca Stadtlander and, coming in November from Joyce Sidman, Winter Bees […]<\/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-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}