{"id":3970,"date":"2016-01-17T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2016-01-16T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T21:55:37","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-466-featuring-andrea-daquino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #466: Featuring Andrea D’Aquino"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>
\n

“Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea.
‘I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
\n
 

\nI’ve got the artwork today of art director, illustrator, and graphic designer Andrea D’Aquino<\/a><\/strong>. In this, her debut, she provides illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> as part of a series from Rockport Publishers, called Classics Reimagined. D’Aquino’s interpretation of this story<\/a><\/strong> is bold, beautiful, and surreal; her watercolor, collaged artwork provides a modern, fresh look at a story many know so well. It’s a thoughtfully-bound book; go here<\/a><\/strong> and scroll down to see images of how the publisher worked quotes into the book’s exterior. (They put quotes on the page’s edges, a nice touch.) <\/p>\n

Andrea shares quite a bit of art below from the book, so let’s get right to it so that you can see for yourself. I thank her for sharing!<\/p>\n


\n
 

\n
\n

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,
and of having nothing to do ….”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“Poor Alice!”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
“‘I wish I hadn’t cried so much!’ said Alice,
as she swam about, trying to find her way out.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\n
\n
“However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again,
the Dodo suddenly called ‘The race is over!’ ….”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\n
\n
“Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her,
and she trembled till she shook the house ….”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
“Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were
all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor ….”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘Who are <\/em>you?’ said the Caterpillar.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘…Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose …'”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
“‘There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!’ Alice said to herself ….”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. …”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘Are their heads off?’ shouted the Queen.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“Alice thought she had never seen
such a curious croquet-ground in all her life ….”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘I’d rather not,’ the Cat remarked.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time, she’d have everybody executed all round.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\n
 

\n
\n
“‘What fun!’ said the Gryphon,
half to itself, half to Alice.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘We called him Tortoise because he taught us,’ said the Mock Turtle angrily ….”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\n
\n
“‘I’m a poor man, your Majesty,’ he began.”<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
An unpublished piece from the book<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n 

\nALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Rockport Publishers. Illustrations and cover art by Andrea D’Aquino. Published by Rockport Publishers, Beverly, Massachusetts. All illustrations reproduced by permission of Andrea D’Aquino.<\/em><\/p>\n

* * *<\/center><\/p>\n

Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome. <\/p>\n

* * * Jules’ Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
<\/center><\/p>\n

1)<\/strong><\/font> Last week was my first visit to Austin, Texas. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> At the MLA conference I attended in Austin, I may have been the lone librarian there, as well as one of the few non-full-time academics, but the children’s lit people I met there were awfully nice. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> While in Austin, I saw Dave Rawlings Machine<\/a><\/strong> live, and it was incredible. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> Also, I can’t get over how FLIPPIN’ good the new CD<\/a><\/strong> is. <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> While in Austin, I also met a lot of wonderful people, including Liz Garton Scanlon<\/a><\/strong>, Don Tate<\/a><\/strong>, and Chris Barton<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> Unfortunately, I got some kind of flu after traveling but not until AFTER the ALA Youth Media Awards announcements<\/a><\/strong> on Monday, which were very fun. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> I’m reading this to my girls (check out the beautiful anniversary-edition cover)—a book that was assigned reading for me in elementary school and, I think, one of the best children’s books ever—and it’s a pleasure to read this prose aloud.
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\nWhat are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea.‘I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked.”(Click to enlarge)   I’ve got the artwork today of art director, illustrator, and graphic designer Andrea D’Aquino. In this, her debut, she provides illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as part of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","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=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}