{"id":4318,"date":"2017-04-11T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2017-04-11T19:26:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:26:20","slug":"a-letter-to-my-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to My Teacher<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at BookPage<\/em>, I’ve got a review of Deborah Hopkinson’s<\/a><\/strong> A Letter to My Teacher<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade, April 2017), illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. That is here<\/a><\/strong>, and I’m following up today with a bit of art from the book. <\/p>\n

Until Thursday …<\/p>\n


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“When winter came, the reading corner became our secret garden of stories. …”<\/em>
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“I practiced hard and you gave me extra help, too. …”<\/em>
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A LETTER TO MY TEACHER. Text \u00a9 2017 by Deborah Hopkinson. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Nancy Carpenter. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Over at BookPage, I’ve got a review of Deborah Hopkinson’s A Letter to My Teacher (Schwartz & Wade, April 2017), illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. That is here, and I’m following up today with a bit of art from the book. Until Thursday …<\/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-4318","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\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}