{"id":4103,"date":"2016-07-14T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2016-07-12T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:43:43","slug":"4103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"Jeannie Baker’s Circle<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Following an ancient, invisible pathway high above the clouds,
each bird takes a turn to lead the way south.”<\/em>
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Last week, I chatted over at Kirkus<\/em> (here<\/a><\/strong>) with Australian author-illustrator Jeannie Baker<\/a><\/strong>. It was fascinating to read her description of her collage-making process. Today, I’m following up with two spreads from her newest book, Circle<\/em> (Candlewick, May 2016). <\/p>\n


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“The flock flies high above the clouds, chattering at times to help stay close together. Each bird takes a turn to lead the way. They follow an ancient, invisible pathway for
six nights and six days, until they know they need to stop.”<\/em>
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CIRCLE. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Jeannie Baker. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Following an ancient, invisible pathway high above the clouds,each bird takes a turn to lead the way south.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Last week, I chatted over at Kirkus (here) with Australian author-illustrator Jeannie Baker. It was fascinating to read her description of her collage-making process. Today, I’m following up with two spreads from her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}