{"id":3804,"date":"2015-07-30T07:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2015-07-30T07:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:07:56","slug":"the-return-of-dory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Dory"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Final art:
“That night my brain keeps waking me up with so many questions.”<\/em><\/center>
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Above: Early sketch<\/em><\/center>
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\nToday, author-illustrator Abby Hanlon<\/a><\/strong> shares some final art and early sketches from Dory and the Real True Friend<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Dial, July 2015), which she and I talked about last week here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the art. …<\/p>\n


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Some Final Art:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“… tomorrow is the first day of school!
I tell Mary the big news
while we are playing our favorite game, exercise club.”<\/em><\/center>
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“There is somebody at my table who is stuck in a shirt.”<\/em><\/center>
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“I played school with all the monsters today. I was the teacher!”<\/em><\/center>
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“Without Mr. Nuggy, I’m on my own. And now Mary is so jealous of Rosabelle,
she is having a fit.”<\/em>
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“The next morning, I wake up early
because I need time to put on my outfit.”<\/em>
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“During circle time, I have to wait forever and forever for my turn to speak.
<\/em>Everyone in this class has something to say!
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“At lunch I can barely talk to Rosabelle
because George won’t stop talking about the hamster game.”<\/em>
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“‘Is she real in the same way Mary is real?’ asks Violet.”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘I will free Mr. Nuggy if you can get me what I want.’
‘Yes, anything,’ I say.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Along the way, many animals stop to greet us.”<\/em><\/center>
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“I clear a path through the forest by chopping down
little trees and branches with Rosabelle’s sword.”<\/em>
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“But with one ninja slash from me, and a squirt of lemon juice in the eye
from Rosabelle, Mrs. Gobble Gracker is blinded and her cape catches on fire.”<\/em>
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“… And lose.”<\/em><\/center>
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Some Early Sketches:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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DORY AND THE REAL TRUE FRIEND. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Abby Hanlon. Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, New York. All images here reproduced by permission of Abby Hanlon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Final art:“That night my brain keeps waking me up with so many questions.”   Above: Early sketch   Today, author-illustrator Abby Hanlon shares some final art and early sketches from Dory and the Real True Friend (Dial, July 2015), which she and I talked about last week here at Kirkus. Enjoy the art. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}