{"id":4111,"date":"2016-07-31T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2016-07-26T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T04:00:27","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-494-featuring-serge-bloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #494: Featuring Serge Bloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/Saturday_30-31small.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;And anyone else who wants to join in.&#8221;<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a review over at <em>BookPage<\/em> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ianlendler.com\/\">Ian Lendler&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Saturday<\/em> (Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook, July 2016), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sergebloch.net\/\">Serge Bloch<\/a><\/strong>. That review is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpage.com\/reviews\/20160-ian-lendler-saturday#.V5gv3bgrKUk\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Below are some spreads from the book; I always like to see Serge&#8217;s art.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/Saturday_8-9large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/Saturday_8-9small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;&#8230; so it&#8217;s my job to start them early!&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/Saturday_12-13large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/Saturday_12-13small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;We like a lot of books.<br \/>Saturday means taking a rocket ship ride to the moon.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/07\/saturdaycover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<em>SATURDAY. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Ian Lendler. Illustrations \u00a9 2016 by Serge Bloch. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook Press, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note 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<p><center><font size=3><strong>* * * Jules&#8217; Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is it! Moving weekend, that is. I am typing this earlier in the week, but it&#8217;s possible my computer won&#8217;t even be connected today (that is, Sunday &#8212; the day you read this). I will be able, however, to read your kicks via my phone, so &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><font size=4>YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And anyone else who wants to join in.&#8221; &nbsp; I&#8217;ve got a review over at BookPage of Ian Lendler&#8217;s Saturday (Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook, July 2016), illustrated by Serge Bloch. That review is here. Below are some spreads from the book; I always like to see Serge&#8217;s art.<\/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-4111","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\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}