{"id":4262,"date":"2017-02-09T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:55:04","slug":"a-bit-of-norse-mythology-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Norse Mythology Before Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“And Thor’s own brother, Tyr, had his hand bitten off
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> with Joe Todd-Stanton<\/a><\/strong> about his debut children’s book, Arthur and the Golden Rope<\/em> (Flying Eye Books, February 2017), volume one in the Brownstone’s Mythical Collection<\/em> series. <\/p>\n

Today, I am following up with some art from the book, including the glorious endpapers. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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Opening endpapers<\/em>
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“Hello, dear reader, and welcome to the Brownstone family vault. …”<\/em>
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(Click second image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center>
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“For his second challenge, Arthur was truly stumped. He had heard of a huge library within the gods’ hall … perhaps he could find something useful there?”<\/em>
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“It was a trap! …”<\/em>
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Closing endpapers<\/em>
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(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center>
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ARTHUR AND THE GOLDEN ROPE. Text and illustrations \u00a9 Joe Todd-Stanton 2016. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Flying Eye Books, London – New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And Thor’s own brother, Tyr, had his hand bitten offwhen he tried to outwit the wolf.”   Last week at Kirkus, I chatted here with Joe Todd-Stanton about his debut children’s book, Arthur and the Golden Rope (Flying Eye Books, February 2017), volume one in the Brownstone’s Mythical Collection series. Today, I am following up […]<\/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-4262","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\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}