{"id":3983,"date":"2016-02-07T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T00:12:08","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-469-featuring-chloe-bonfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #469: Featuring Chloe Bonfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Jack reached a hill and climbed to the top. No perfect trees were there.
He climbed down the other side. Nothing.
The perfect tree was really very hard to find.”<\/em>
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\nI’ve got a review here<\/a><\/strong> over at BookPage<\/em> of Chloe Bonfield’s<\/a><\/strong> The Perfect Tree<\/em> (Running Press, January 2016). This is the debut book for Bonfield, who lives in London. I’m following up that review today with two spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

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I’m presenting in Chicago this weekend for this conference<\/a><\/strong> at the Center for Teaching through Children\u2019s Books at National Louis University. I’ll be home today, though, so please do leave your kicks, dear 7-Imp kickers. <\/p>\n

Here’s one more spread and the cover. …
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“Jack’s heart soared as birds and feathers filled the air.
They tickled his face and tangled in his hair. …”<\/em>
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THE PERFECT TREE. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Chloe Bonfield. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Running Press Kids, Philadelphia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Jack reached a hill and climbed to the top. No perfect trees were there.He climbed down the other side. Nothing.The perfect tree was really very hard to find.”(Click to enlarge spread)   I’ve got a review here over at BookPage of Chloe Bonfield’s The Perfect Tree (Running Press, January 2016). This is the debut book […]<\/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-3983","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\/3983","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=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}