{"id":4325,"date":"2017-04-20T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:48:08","slug":"the-power-of-the-green-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4325","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Green Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Would you like to be in our wedding?’ Jo asked.
‘<\/em>Absolutely,’ Jameson replied, staring deeply into Jo’s bright eyes.”<\/em>
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\nTwo of my favorite picture books thus far this year have the word “pants” in the title. “Pants” is, indeed, a fabulous word. <\/p>\n

Today, as a follow-up to my Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/a><\/strong> last week with author-illustrator Kenneth Kraegel<\/a><\/strong>, I have a bit of art from Green Pants<\/em> (Candlewick, March 2017). <\/p>\n

(More later on that other<\/em> picture book …)<\/p>\n

Until tomorrow …<\/p>\n


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“Jameson only ever wore green pants.
When he wore green pants, he could do <\/em>anything.”
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GREEN PANTS. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Kenneth Kraegel. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Would you like to be in our wedding?’ Jo asked.‘Absolutely,’ Jameson replied, staring deeply into Jo’s bright eyes.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Two of my favorite picture books thus far this year have the word “pants” in the title. “Pants” is, indeed, a fabulous word. Today, as a follow-up to my Kirkus Q&A last week […]<\/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-4325","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\/4325","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=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}