{"id":4327,"date":"2017-04-23T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T23:18:43","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-531-featuring-brian-floca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #531: Featuring Brian Floca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“… Then an idea came to her. She found her nanny’s mop and
took the stringy part off the stick. She tied the stringy part to the crocodile’s head.
The yarn in the mop was the same shade of brown as Princess Cora’s hair.”<\/em>
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\nGood morning, one and all. I’ve got a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Laura Amy Schlitz’s<\/a><\/strong> Princess Cora and the Crocodile<\/em> (Candlewick, March 2017), illustrated by Brian Floca<\/a><\/strong>. Such a good book, all 80 pages of it. If you want to read all about it, head here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today here at 7-Imp is a bit of art from the book. <\/p>\n


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“At that very moment, Princess Cora was walking by the lily pond. She’d lost her shoes somewhere by the creek, and her dress was covered with strawberry stains.
She felt very peaceful. …”<\/em>
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\nPRINCESS CORA AND THE CROCODILE. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Laura Amy Schlitz. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Brian Floca. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

* * * Jules’ Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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1)<\/strong><\/font> Home-made bread. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> Thoughtful surprises in the mail. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> My story time at Parnassus<\/a><\/strong> yesterday that had a lot<\/em> of children, despite lots of rain outside. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> Jone’s poetry postcard project and one in my mailbox for me. <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> My book club meets at my<\/em> house tonight! I love having people over, but the house we moved from last year was too tiny to have a group of folks over. <\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> I’ve got wine and cookies ready for it. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> Mid-day bike rides. <\/p>\n

BONUS:<\/strong><\/font> Betsy Bird and I did a guest post over at Two Bossy Dames<\/a><\/em><\/strong> this week. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“… Then an idea came to her. She found her nanny’s mop andtook the stringy part off the stick. She tied the stringy part to the crocodile’s head.The yarn in the mop was the same shade of brown as Princess Cora’s hair.”(Click to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)   Good morning, one and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","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=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}