{"id":4030,"date":"2016-04-12T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:12:29","slug":"bedtime-bliss-jane-smileysand-lauren-castillos-twenty-yawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4030","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime Bliss: Jane Smiley’s
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Sketch and final art: “She spread her blankie over them and kissed them good night. Now they looked sleepy and happy.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nHello, Imps. I was out of town, and I missed blogging. But I’m back. <\/p>\n

And today I’ve got a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley’s<\/a><\/strong> debut picture book, Twenty Yawns<\/em> (Two Lions, April 2016), illustrated by Lauren Castillo<\/a><\/strong>. Such a good one. Here’s<\/a><\/strong> the review if you want to read about it, and Lauren shares here today some process images and final art. <\/p>\n

Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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Manuscript<\/em>
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Sketchbooks<\/em>
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Character studies<\/em>
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Cover thumbnails<\/em><\/center>
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Cover sketches<\/em><\/center>
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Final cover<\/em><\/center>
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Color sketches and final art: “The beach umbrella was flapping in the breeze.
Not far from the waves, Lucy was digging a hole all by herself.”<\/em>
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Color sketch and final art: “Lucy walked with Mom and Dad
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Color sketch and final art: “Lucy started to carry Molasses back to her bed. But the other toys were looking at her, even Leonard, the baby kangaroo. They seemed lonely.”<\/em>
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Lauren: “The drawings on Lucy’s wall in the book are actual drawings I made as a kid. Slightly altered, but for the most part I tried to keep them as I made them back then. [Pictured here are] two photos I have of the original art, plus how it looks in the book.”<\/em>
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TWENTY YAWNS. Copyright \u00a9 2016 Jane Smiley. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 Lauren Castillo. Published by Two Lions, New York. All images used by permission of Lauren Castillo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sketch and final art: “She spread her blankie over them and kissed them good night. Now they looked sleepy and happy.”   Hello, Imps. I was out of town, and I missed blogging. But I’m back. And today I’ve got a review over at BookPage of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley’s debut picture book, Twenty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","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=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}