{"id":4372,"date":"2017-06-15T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2017-06-15T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:30:34","slug":"the-art-and-poetry-of-hope-anita-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"The Art and Poetry of Hope Anita Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs a follow-up to my Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/a><\/strong> last week with Hope Anita Smith<\/a><\/strong>, here are some illustrations from My Daddy Rules the World: Poems About Dads<\/em> (Christy Ottaviano Books\/Henry Holt, May 2017), which she wrote and illustrated. <\/p>\n


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“My daddy— \/ he is far away. \/ I write to him \/ most every day. …”<\/em>
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“Sometimes I forget \/ I’m supposed to be good. …”<\/em>
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(Click on image to enlarge and read the poem, “My Daddy Rules the World”)<\/em><\/center>
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MY DADDY RULES THE WORLD: POEMS ABOUT DADS. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Hope Anita Smith. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Christy Ottaviano Books\/Henry Holt and Company, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click on image to enlarge and read the poem, “The Guitar Lesson”)   As a follow-up to my Kirkus Q&A last week with Hope Anita Smith, here are some illustrations from My Daddy Rules the World: Poems About Dads (Christy Ottaviano Books\/Henry Holt, May 2017), which she wrote and illustrated.<\/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-4372","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\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}