{"id":4416,"date":"2017-08-13T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T15:31:30","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-547-featuring-rebecca-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #547: Featuring Rebecca Green"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI always enjoy sharing the work of debut artists, but I also like showcasing the work of local artists. I have one illustrator today, Rebecca Green<\/a><\/strong>, who is both things. She sees her debut this September in How To Make Friends with a Ghost<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Tundra), and<\/em> she lives here in middle Tennessee (Nashville). In fact, she’s painted a story time mural for Parnassus Books—you can see pics in this post<\/a><\/strong> from the bookstore—and I can’t wait to see it in person. <\/p>\n

How To Make Friends with a Ghost<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is a sweet and quirky faux how-to guide on creating lasting friendships with ghosts, beginning with a girl who is “found” by a ghost (on account of being sweet, warm, and kind) and ending with the same girl as an elderly woman, still hangin’ with her spectral friend. In the end, the woman becomes a ghost herself and the two remain friends “even after the end.” In the hands of Rebecca, this is not as dark and grisly as it might sound; her gouache and colored pencil illustrations, rendered in a subdued gray and red palette, communicate tenderness. This is, more than anything else, a friendship story. <\/p>\n

Below, Rebecca also shares some other miscellaneous pieces of art (including the one above), as well as some of her illustrations from Jacqueline K. Ogburn’s<\/a><\/strong> novel, The Unicorn in the Barn<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Houghton Mifflin, July 2017).
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“Chances are, your ghost will want to help you in the kitchen.
I suggest making Floating Spaghetti and Mudballs together!”<\/em><\/center>
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“Take your ghost for a walk in the woods.
Ghosts love to collect leaves, acorns and worms.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Read scary stories together. Ghosts love to be read to.
I suggest <\/em>Tales of the Living by Mort L. Bings.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Throw a dance party! Ghosts like to groove to creepy music.
I recommend <\/em>Spooky Jams by the Spiderz.”<\/em><\/center>
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“You can even hide your ghost in the refrigerator.
Ghosts love to be cold.”<\/em><\/center>
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Above: Illustrations and cover from
<\/em>How to Make Friends with a Ghost<\/center>
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Three black and white illustrations above:
From Jacqueline K. Ogburn’s<\/em> The Unicorn in the Barn<\/center>
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Personal works, mostly gouache and colored pencil<\/em>
(Click each to enlarge)<\/center>
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\nAll artwork used by permission of Rebecca Green.<\/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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Yesterday’s news out of Virginia is disgusting. I typed up these kicks earlier — before really<\/em> taking in the news events of the past couple of days. I’ll just leave these here, but I’m feeling pretty anti-kicky right now. <\/p>\n

1)<\/strong><\/font> David Rawlings’ new album<\/a><\/strong> is so good. My vinyl showed up this week. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> David Tennant and Colbert<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> This<\/a><\/strong> animated short. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> These Freelance Achievement Stickers<\/a><\/strong> by Jeremy Nguyen<\/a><\/strong> hit close to home. <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> Reunion. <\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> Travel plans. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> Last but not least, my grad course on picture books is over. I’m grading this weekend, and it’s wonderful to read about all the picture books my students read this summer. <\/p>\n

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

  I always enjoy sharing the work of debut artists, but I also like showcasing the work of local artists. I have one illustrator today, Rebecca Green, who is both things. She sees her debut this September in How To Make Friends with a Ghost (Tundra), and she lives here in middle Tennessee (Nashville). In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}