{"id":4859,"date":"2019-04-17T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2019-04-17T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:32:08","slug":"ernestines-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4859","title":{"rendered":"<em>Ernestine&#8217;s Milky Way<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_cutting.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nOver at Tennessee&#8217;s <em>Chapter 16<\/em>, I have a chat with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1300\">Kerry Madden-Lunsford<\/a><\/strong>, whose new picture book is called <em>Ernestine&#8217;s Milky Way<\/em> (Schwartz &#038; Wade, March 2019) and is illustrated by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emillustrates.com\/\">Emily Sutton<\/a><\/strong>. You can give me a picture book set in the Great Smoky Mountains <em>any<\/em> day. <\/p>\n<p>The interview is over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter16.org\/being-neighborly-the-maggie-valley-way\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> at the wonderful <em>Chapter 16<\/em> site, and here at 7-Imp today I have some of Emily&#8217;s spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Deep in the hills and hollers of Maggie Valley, where the sun rose over an<br \/>old rock house, lived Ernestine, her mama, and their cow, Ole Peg. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/br>(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Then, rain or shine, she and Mama would head off to the barn to milk Ole Peg. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/br>(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8221; &#8230; And so Ernestine set off in the silent dawn beneath a lavender sky.&#8221;<\/em><\/br>(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_4large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINE_4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8221; &#8230; Could it be a lone wolf rustling up a breakfast of berries?&#8221;<\/em><\/br>(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINEcoverlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/ERNESTINEcoversmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>ERNESTINE&#8217;S MILKY WAY. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Kerry Madden-Lunsford. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Emily Sutton and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz &#038; Wade Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Over at Tennessee&#8217;s Chapter 16, I have a chat with author Kerry Madden-Lunsford, whose new picture book is called Ernestine&#8217;s Milky Way (Schwartz &#038; Wade, March 2019) and is illustrated by Emily Sutton. You can give me a picture book set in the Great Smoky Mountains any day. 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