{"id":3608,"date":"2014-12-18T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2014-12-19T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:59:10","slug":"the-many-sides-of-santaand-some-art-from-chuck-groenink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"The Many Sides of Santa
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> with children’s book author and poet Bob Raczka<\/a><\/strong>, so today I’m following up with some of Chuck Groenink’s<\/a><\/strong> illustrations from Raczka’s Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole<\/em>, released by Carolrhoda Books in September. Groenink, as I mentioned in the column last week, is from the Netherlands but now lives in New York. I highly recommend exploring the art at his site<\/a><\/strong> or even his tumblr<\/a><\/strong>. If you subscribe to the Horn Book<\/em>, you’ll recognize him from the cover art of the current issue<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I’m tellin’ you what. We see lots of new holiday picture books every year, many easily forgettable, but I really like this one. I’d love to see a 2015 7-Imp interview with Groenink so that we can see way more art from him. Don’t you agree? <\/p>\n

Enjoy the art. <\/p>\n

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“…Wishes blowing in \/ from my overfilled mailbox— \/ December’s first storm …”<\/em>
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“…The north wind and I \/ whistling to ‘Let It Snow!’ \/ on the radio.”<\/em>
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SANTA CLAUSES: SHORT POEMS FROM THE NORTH POLE. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Bob Raczka. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Chuck Groenink and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Carolrhoda Books.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Last week at Kirkus, I chatted here with children’s book author and poet Bob Raczka, so today I’m following up with some of Chuck Groenink’s illustrations from Raczka’s Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole, released by Carolrhoda Books in September. Groenink, as I mentioned in the column last week, is from the […]<\/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-3608","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\/3608","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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}