{"id":4846,"date":"2019-03-28T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2019-03-28T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:19:47","slug":"lion-of-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"<em>Lion of the Sky<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lionopensmall.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nLast week at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/getting-ready-april\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1648\">Laura Purdie Salas&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons<\/em> (Millbrook, April 2019), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercelopez.com\/\">Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Today here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ve got some spreads from the book. (Tomorrow, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimsoyeonart.com\/\">Soyeon Kim<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 the illustrator of the other book mentioned in last week&#8217;s <em>Kirkus<\/em> column \u2014 will visit to talk about creating the artwork for Elin Kelsey\u2019s <em>You Are Never Alone<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lionopenlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion1.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion3full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion3left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion3full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion3right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion4full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion4left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion4full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lion4right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/03\/lioncover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>LION OF THE SKY: HAIKU FOR ALL SEASONS. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Laura Purdie Salas. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Millbrook Press, Minneapolis.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last week at Kirkus, I wrote here about Laura Purdie Salas&#8217;s Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons (Millbrook, April 2019), illustrated by Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez. Today here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ve got some spreads from the book. (Tomorrow, Soyeon Kim \u2014 the illustrator of the other book mentioned in last week&#8217;s Kirkus column \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","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=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}