{"id":4436,"date":"2017-09-05T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2017-09-03T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T18:43:24","slug":"wild-side-art-from-k-g-campbell-and-sydney-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4436","title":{"rendered":"Wild Side: Art from K. G. Campbell and Sydney Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From Michelle Cuevas’s <\/em>Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow,
illustrated by Sydney Smith<\/em>
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— From Holly Grant’s <\/em>Wee Sister Strange,
illustrated by K. G. Campbell<\/em><\/center>
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about some wild things of children’s literature — Michelle Cuevas’s<\/a><\/strong> Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow<\/em> (Dial, September 2017), illustrated by Sydney Smith<\/a><\/strong>, and Holly Grant’s Wee Sister Strange<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade, September 2017), illustrated by K. G. Campbell<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I’m following up with some art today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“If life is a book, then Smoot the Shadow had been reading the same yawn-colored page for seven and a half years.”<\/em>
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“People who saw the flower’s shadow tried to guess what it was. ‘It’s a baby storm cloud.’ ‘It’s smoke from a dollhouse chimney.’ ‘It’s a butterfly made of mist.'”<\/em>
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From Wee Sister Strange<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“She drinks up the moon \/ Like a cat drinking cream.
She drinks up the dark \/ Like it’s tea with the queen.”<\/em>
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“She’s searching for something. \/ She’s searching, I’m sure!
She inspects every snail \/ As a mermaid counts pearls.”<\/em>
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“And there’s <\/em>you in your bed \/ With this book ‘neat your nose!
Sister crooks her ear close \/ And she hears a soft voice …”<\/em>
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SMOOT: A REBELLIOUS SHADOW. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Michelle Cuevas. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Sydney Smith. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/p>\n

WEE SISTER STRANGE. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Holly Grant. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by K. G. Campbell. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Michelle Cuevas’s Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow,illustrated by Sydney Smith(Click to enlarge spread)   — From Holly Grant’s Wee Sister Strange,illustrated by K. G. Campbell   Last week at Kirkus, I wrote here about some wild things of children’s literature — Michelle Cuevas’s Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow (Dial, September 2017), illustrated by Sydney Smith, […]<\/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-4436","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\/4436","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=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}