{"id":4491,"date":"2017-11-12T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2017-11-11T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:16:28","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-560-featuring-april-pulley-sayre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4491","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #560: Featuring April Pulley Sayre"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>
\n

“Oh\u2014it’s orange!
Red, be bold.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
\n
 

\nI’ve got some spreads today from April Pulley Sayre’s<\/a><\/strong> Full of Fall<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Beach Lane Books, August 2017). It’s a beautiful book, very fitting for this time of year. I thought of it this week, as I drove down the tree-lined street to my daughters’ school. The fall leaves are pretty stunning at this time of year. <\/p>\n

Perfectly paced and cadenced, Sayre’s flowing, rhyming text captures the wonders of autumn with a genuine, infectious wonder. She kicks off the book with a goodbye to summer and welcomes the surging colors of fall, with her focus on the leaves of fall trees. “The forest glows,” Sayre writes, as her detailed nature photos capture the season. The book closes with a welcome to winter, as well as some informational facts about the leaves of autumn. Visually, the book is eye-popping, as Sayre’s photography consistently is. Some spreads feature one photo, while others feature two or three, with unfussy white borders dividing them. All spreads are full-bleed — and glorious. <\/p>\n

You won’t want to miss this one. Here are some more spreads. …<\/p>\n


\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n

“One leaf. Another leaf.
Colors surge.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
“Meet the trees!
Their shapes emerge.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
“Hello, yellow.
Greetings, gold.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 
<\/p>\n

FULL OF FALL. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by April Pulley Sayre. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Beach Lane Books \/ Simon & Schuster, New York.<\/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>
<\/center><\/p>\n

1)<\/strong><\/font> !!!<\/font><\/strong> ↓ ↓ ↓<\/font><\/strong>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
 

\n2)<\/strong><\/font> St. Vincent’s<\/a><\/strong> new album has been my jam all week. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> This NYT<\/em> piece<\/a><\/strong> from Lindy West. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> This groundbreaking news<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> We saw Loving Vincent<\/a><\/strong><\/em> yesterday. Beautiful.
\n
\n6)<\/strong><\/font> The local news highlighted my daughters’ school — for just being awesome, that is. (The link seems to be gone at their website, but trust me: It was neat to see.) <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> I loved reading this<\/a><\/strong>, especially his imagined acceptance speech.
\n
 

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

“Oh\u2014it’s orange!Red, be bold.”(Click to enlarge spread)   I’ve got some spreads today from April Pulley Sayre’s Full of Fall (Beach Lane Books, August 2017). It’s a beautiful book, very fitting for this time of year. I thought of it this week, as I drove down the tree-lined street to my daughters’ school. The fall […]<\/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-4491","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\/4491","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=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}