{"id":4598,"date":"2018-04-05T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2018-04-04T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:56:47","slug":"a-moment-with-the-art-of-qin-leng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4598","title":{"rendered":"A Moment with the Art of Qin Leng"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’m following up my Kirkus<\/em> Q&A last week with illustrator Qin Leng<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 which was here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it \u2014 with some of her illustrations from Jessica Scott Kerrin’s<\/a><\/strong> The Better Tree Fort<\/em> (Groundwood, March 2018). <\/p>\n

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“Russell said to his dad, ‘Let’s build a tree fort.’ Russell’s dad said, ‘I don’t know much about building.’ He looked up, up, up. ‘Or tree forts,’ he added.”<\/em>
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THE BETTER TREE FORT. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Jessica Scott Kerrin. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Qin Leng. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’m following up my Kirkus Q&A last week with illustrator Qin Leng \u2014 which was here, if you missed it \u2014 with some of her illustrations from Jessica Scott Kerrin’s The Better Tree Fort (Groundwood, March 2018). Enjoy!<\/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-4598","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\/4598","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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}