{"id":4199,"date":"2016-11-15T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:37:23","slug":"a-small-thing-but-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"A Small Thing … but Big<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“‘Do not be worried,’ said the old man of the dog timidly.
‘Does she bark?’ asked Lizzie with worry anyway.
‘Not at all little children,’ said the old man.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nI’ve got a BookPage<\/em> review of Tony Johnston’s A Small Thing … but Big<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, October 2016), illustrated by Hadley Hooper<\/a><\/strong>. That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and today I’ve got some illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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“Lizzie froze.”<\/em>
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“Walking with a dog.
A small thing, but big.”<\/em>
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“‘She is a good dog,’ Lizzie said, patting Cecile.
‘All dogs are good if you give them a chance.'”<\/em>
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“‘You know,’ ventured the old man, ‘I believe you could take a little walk with Cecile by yourself.’ ‘I could?’ ‘You could.'”<\/em>
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“Walking a dog alone.
A small thing, but big.”<\/em>
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\nA SMALL THING … BUT BIG. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Tony Johnston. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Hadley Hooper. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the illustrator and publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook Press, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Do not be worried,’ said the old man of the dog timidly.‘Does she bark?’ asked Lizzie with worry anyway.‘Not at all little children,’ said the old man.”   I’ve got a BookPage review of Tony Johnston’s A Small Thing … but Big (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, October 2016), illustrated by Hadley Hooper. That review is here, […]<\/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-4199","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\/4199","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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}