{"id":4560,"date":"2018-02-08T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2018-02-08T06:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:36:40","slug":"seeing-into-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Into Tomorrow<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Empty railroad tracks: \/ A train sounds in the spring hills
And the rails leap with life.”<\/em>
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\nLast week, I talked over at Kirkus<\/em> with author-illustrator Nina Crews<\/a><\/strong> about her newest picture book, Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright<\/em> (Millbrook Press, February 2018). I really enjoyed that chat, which is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, I’ve a few spreads from the book. If you haven’t already read the Q&A and know the answer, you get seven points for identifying the talented man in the spread above. <\/p>\n


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“Just enough of snow \/ For a boy’s finger to write
His name on the porch.”<\/em>
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“Under a low sky \/ A boy walking with a dog
In the spring rain.”<\/em>
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SEEING INTO TOMORROW: HAIKU BY RICHARD WRIGHT. Haiku Copyright \u00a9 1998 by Ellen Wright. All other text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Nina Crews. Published by Millbrook Press, Minneapolis. Illustrations reproduced here by permission of Nina Crews.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Empty railroad tracks: \/ A train sounds in the spring hillsAnd the rails leap with life.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Last week, I talked over at Kirkus with author-illustrator Nina Crews about her newest picture book, Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright (Millbrook Press, February 2018). I really enjoyed that chat, which is here. […]<\/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-4560","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\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}