{"id":3627,"date":"2015-01-07T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:15:34","slug":"a-bear-a-truck-an-unreliable-narratorand-julia-sarcone-roach-a-few-hours-after-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3627","title":{"rendered":"A Bear, a Truck, an Unreliable Narrator,
and Julia Sarcone-Roach (a Few Hours After<\/em> Breakfast)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nAuthor-illustrator Julia Sarcone-Roach<\/a><\/strong> is visiting 7-Imp today, you all, and it’s pretty much made my day. <\/p>\n

Over at BookPage<\/em>, I reviewed her newest picture book, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich<\/em>, released just this week. The review is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you want to know my thoughts (I’m quite smitten with this book), and if you want to know more about the story. <\/p>\n

Julia shares here at 7-Imp some spreads from the book, some dummy pages, and some behind-the-scenes peeks, too. She created the illustrations using acrylic paints and pencil, and I could stare at them all day. The colors, o! the colors!<\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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Early Sketches and Final Art:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Early sketch and final spread: “By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. But you may not know <\/em>how it happened.
So let me tell you. It all started with the bear.”<\/em>
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Early sketch and final spread: “The morning air was warm and bright when the bear stepped out of his den. He stretched and sniffed. The scent of ripe berries drifted toward him and led to a wonderful discovery.”<\/em>
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Early sketch and final spread:”By the time the bear opened his eyes, the buzzing had become a rumbling. He was being quickly swept along like a leaf in a great river.
The forest disappeared in the distance and high cliffs rose up around him.”<\/em>
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“There it was. Your beautiful and delicious sandwich. All alone. He waited to make sure no one saw him (not even the sandwich) before he made his move.”<\/em>
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More Behind the Scenes …<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Bear sketches<\/em>
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Julia: “The back cover has a mysterious shadow looming over a sandwich.
Before painting, I set up some lighting studies. For accuracy’s sake, I staged it with
a real lunchbox, and of course I used a real bear.”<\/em>
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Back cover sketch<\/em><\/center>
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Julia: “This is my assistant Holly, who is in charge of naps and biting.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nTHE BEAR ATE YOUR SANDWICH. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Julia Sarcone-Roach. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. All images here are reproduced by permission of Julia Sarcone-Roach.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Author-illustrator Julia Sarcone-Roach is visiting 7-Imp today, you all, and it’s pretty much made my day. Over at BookPage, I reviewed her newest picture book, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich, released just this week. The review is here, if you want to know my thoughts (I’m quite smitten with this book), and if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","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=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}