{"id":4576,"date":"2018-03-05T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2018-03-05T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:17:48","slug":"baby-monkey-private-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4576","title":{"rendered":"<em>Baby Monkey, Private Eye<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/03\/Baby Monkey images 4use.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Now Baby Monkey is ready!&#8221;<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve a review over at <em>BookPage<\/em> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/communication.ucsd.edu\/people\/faculty\/david-serlin.html\">David Serlin&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2228\">Brian Selznick&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Baby Monkey, Private Eye<\/em> (Scholastic, February 2018) &#8212; part picture book, part graphic novel, and part beginning reader. If you&#8217;re so inclined to go read about it, that review is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpage.com\/reviews\/22351-brian-selznick-baby-monkey-private-eye#.Wp3oFejwaUk\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;m following up here at 7-Imp today with a bit of art from it. <\/p>\n<p>I also noticed recently over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> that Megan Labrise talked to both David and Brian about this book. That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/brian-selznick-david-serlin\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I love how they describe it as a book with no elevator pitch. Yep. That pretty much covers it. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/03\/BabyMonkey_BigEyelarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/03\/BabyMonkey_BigEyesmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/03\/BabyMonkey_Page33small.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Baby Monkey eats a snack.&#8221;<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/03\/BMPEnoborder.jpg\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustrations from <\/em>Baby Monkey, Private Eye<em>, written by Brian Selznick and David Serlin. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Brian Selznick. Used with permission from Scholastic Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now Baby Monkey is ready!&#8221; &nbsp; I&#8217;ve a review over at BookPage of David Serlin&#8217;s and Brian Selznick&#8217;s Baby Monkey, Private Eye (Scholastic, February 2018) &#8212; part picture book, part graphic novel, and part beginning reader. If you&#8217;re so inclined to go read about it, that review is here. I&#8217;m following up here at 7-Imp [&hellip;]<\/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-4576","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\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}