{"id":4840,"date":"2019-03-21T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:53:49","slug":"poetree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"Poetree<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at Tennessee’s own Chapter 16<\/em> today, I’ve got a Q&A with author Shauna LaVoy Reynolds<\/a><\/strong> about her debut picture book, Poetree<\/em> (Dial, March 2019), illustrated by Shahrzad Maydani<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>, and here today at 7-Imp are some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“The snow had melted, the buttercups were blooming,
and Sylvia celebrated winter’s end by writing a poem about spring.”<\/em>
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“The next morning Sylvia passed the birch on her way to school.
From a distance she saw her poem fluttering in the breeze. …”<\/em>
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“That night Sylvia dreamed of rhymes falling like autumn leaves.
She dreamed of cheerful songbirds greeting her in perfect rhythm.”<\/em>
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“Sylvia didn’t want to cry. Not at the park.
Walt didn’t want her to cry, either.
‘I’m sorry I was mean at school,’ he said.
Sylvia smiled.”<\/em>
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POETREE. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Shahrzad Maydani. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House LLC, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Over at Tennessee’s own Chapter 16 today, I’ve got a Q&A with author Shauna LaVoy Reynolds about her debut picture book, Poetree (Dial, March 2019), illustrated by Shahrzad Maydani. That Q&A is here, and here today at 7-Imp are some spreads from the book. Enjoy!<\/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-4840","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\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}