{"id":4734,"date":"2018-10-09T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:30:49","slug":"matthew-cordells-king-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4734","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Cordell’s King Alice<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Caldecott Medalist Matt Cordell’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, King Alice<\/em> (Feiwel & Friends, October 2018). That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, Matt shares some sketches, studies, and final pieces from the book. I thank him for sharing. <\/p>\n


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Early Character Sketches & Studies:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Matt: “[This] study with the color drawings is a <\/em>very early one, back when I was considering having my daughter help me with the Dad\/Alice drawings in the book.
We gave it a shot and it got a little unrealistic, once a deadline was in the works.
But Romy actually <\/em>did help me write the bits of the Dad\/Alice book,
which I love to tell kids about at events and school visits.”<\/em>
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Some Final Art:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Illustrations from the title page spread<\/em><\/center>
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“‘King Alice the First and the royal brave knights having breakfast,’ said Mom. …”<\/em>
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“‘King Alice the First and the royal brave knights’ PRINCESS TEA PARTY!'”<\/em>
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Case cover<\/em>
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KING ALICE. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Matthew Cordell. Published by Feiwel and Friends, New York. All images here used by permission of Matthew Cordell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve a review over at BookPage of Caldecott Medalist Matt Cordell’s newest picture book, King Alice (Feiwel & Friends, October 2018). That is here. Today, Matt shares some sketches, studies, and final pieces from the book. I thank him for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","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=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}