{"id":3779,"date":"2015-07-02T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2015-07-02T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:50:12","slug":"the-art-of-emily-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Emily Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“It was a flower. It was alive and wonderful. It gave the gardener hope
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From <\/em>Wild
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\nLast week, I talked to author-illustrator Emily Hughes<\/a><\/strong> over at Kirkus<\/em>, so today I’m sharing some spreads from her new book, The Little Gardener<\/em>, coming to shelves in August, as well as 2013’s Wild<\/em> (both published by Flying Eye Books). <\/p>\n

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Art from The Little Gardener<\/em> (August 2015):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“This was the garden. It didn’t look like much …”<\/em>
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“… but it meant everything to its gardener.”<\/em>
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“Only, he wasn’t much good at gardening. It wasn’t that he didn’t work hard.”<\/em>
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“He would have no joy. One night, feeling tired and sad, he made a wish.”<\/em>
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“The next day the gardener was weary and slept the whole day.
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“And when he finally awoke, it had been just lost enough for something to change.”<\/em>
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“He doesn’t look like much, but he means everything to his garden.”<\/em>
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THE LITTLE GARDENER. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Emily Hughes. Published by Flying Eye Books, London. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n

WILD. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Emily Hughes. Published by Flying Eye Books, London. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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