{"id":4035,"date":"2016-04-19T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2016-04-18T20:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:33:51","slug":"a-moment-with-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"A Moment with Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“In the morning, Mommy gives us wake-up kisses and says,
‘Good morning, little one. Can you hear the sounds of our world?’ Listen! …”<\/em>
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\nI’ve got a review here<\/a><\/strong> over at BookPage<\/em> of Bill Martin Jr<\/a><\/strong> and Michael Sampson’s<\/a><\/strong> Listen to Our World<\/em> (Paula Wiseman Books, March 2016), illustrated by Melissa Sweet<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

As a follow-up today, Melissa shares some art — as well as a few early sketches. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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Melissa: “This book had the slimmest of preliminary work. It was just a half-scale dummy, and the art was created as I went along. It’s interesting that some projects call for diving in, [while] some need more planning. This one benefited from
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“In the oozy swamp, crocodiles glide through the algae.
The marshland is their world. SNAP! …”<\/em>
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“In the refreshing oasis, elephants find cool water.
The grassland is their world. HONK! …”<\/em>
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“In the blue sea, whales swim through the waves.
The ocean is their world. Wahhh …”<\/em>
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LISTEN TO OUR WORLD. Copyright \u00a9 2016 Michael Sampson. Illustrations \u00a9 2016 Melissa Sweet. Published by Paula Wiseman Books\/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York. All images reproduced by permission of Melissa Sweet.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the morning, Mommy gives us wake-up kisses and says,‘Good morning, little one. Can you hear the sounds of our world?’ Listen! …”(Click to enlarge spread)   I’ve got a review here over at BookPage of Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson’s Listen to Our World (Paula Wiseman Books, March 2016), illustrated by Melissa Sweet. […]<\/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-4035","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\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}