{"id":4071,"date":"2016-06-05T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2016-06-05T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T13:49:34","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-486-featuring-lisa-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #486: Featuring Lisa Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Inside the airport you stand in lines.
You stand in lines to get your ticket. You stand in lines to check your bags.
There are lines for the restrooms. There are lines to go through security.”<\/em>
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\nArriving just last month (is it already June?) on bookshelves was Lisa Brown’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, The Airport Book<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (A Neal Porter Book\/Roaring Brook Press). Have you seen it, dear Imps? It follows a family of four on a trip, who make their way through an airport. And it is, as the title tells you, all about the airport experience itself. <\/p>\n

This makes me happy, because have I ever said that I love to people-watch in airports? I do. (The tearful goodbyes! The happy hellos! The relieved goodbyes! The resentful hellos!) And if you follow Lisa’s work, you know she does daily sketches<\/a><\/strong>, which are often of people. And I like her daily sketches very much. So, this book combines two very good things — that is, an airport with lots of Lisa Brown-rendered people in it. <\/p>\n

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The book’s text lays out in a second-person voice the airport, plane-riding, and departing-the-airport experience. It is detailed, even starting with the family’s trip to the airport. In fact, Lisa takes advantage of every part of the book to tell the family’s travel story and impart information about air travel; the title page spread shows the family packing. The spreads are detailed. This is one to pore over and take time with, and there’s a lot for observant eyes to take in. (For one thing, keep your eye on the beloved plush monkey that the little girl in the family has a difficult time parting with.) There’s also a good dose of very matter-of-fact, dry humor. (“A machine x-rays all the bags that you take on the plane. Sometimes another machine x-rays your body. You will also take that with you on the plane.”)<\/p>\n

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Lisa covers just about every aspect of travel on a modern jet aircraft — the “small beeping cars” driving through the airport; moving sidewalks; the folks who get the plane ready out on the tarmac; the jetway; the “clouds and clouds and clouds” you see on your flight; baggage carousels; and lots more. The book would be the perfect<\/em> choice for a child about to fly for the first time — especially a child (or adult!) apprehensive about it. Even the endpapers are smart: The opening ones show the family (and their neighbors) looking out of the window on a rainy day, but in the end, readers see that the family’s destination is a sunny beach. <\/p>\n

I’ve got some final spreads from the book here today, as well as some of Lisa’s early sketches. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!
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Lisa: “[These are sketches] from my regular sketchbook,
sketched from life at the airport, of course.”<\/em><\/center>
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Early book sketches<\/em>
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Final art: “You drive on the highway to where the ground is really flat.”<\/em>
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Final art: “You walk past benches and shops and restaurants and art exhibits. It’s like a little indoor town. Sometimes there are small beeping cars driving through the town. Sometimes the sidewalks and staircases move by themselves. You have to hold your little sister’s hand tight or she could get lost.”<\/em>
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\nTHE AIRPORT BOOK. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Lisa Brown. Published by Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook Press, New York. All images used by permission of Lisa Brown.<\/em>
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\nNote 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>
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1)<\/strong><\/font> I think I completely forgot to kick last week about Knoxville’s wonderful Children’s Festival of Reading, which was about two or three weeks ago. It was great to see some old friends and make some new ones, and the picture book panel discussion (with Matthew Cordell<\/a><\/strong>, Jessica Young<\/a><\/strong>, Floyd Cooper<\/a><\/strong>, and David Soman<\/a><\/strong>) went swimmingly. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> Lady Dynamite<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> Contacting a realtor. Finally. Gulp. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> Finishing a writing assignment I had been putting off for a long time and<\/em> which I was making entirely too hard in my head. (I do this a lot.) Once I finally started it, I found I enjoyed writing it. <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> Dinner out at this great Nashville restaurant<\/a><\/strong> with good friends. (I did NOT try the octopus. I am a wuss.)<\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> Reading nice things about 7-Imp. Here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>. And here<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> Last but not least, the 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Books Awards were announced this week<\/a><\/strong>. The girls and I are now reading The Lie Tree<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and so far it’s excellent. (We were in need of a great, new read-aloud.)<\/p>\n

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

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