{"id":4892,"date":"2019-06-09T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2019-06-08T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:15:19","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-641-featuring-ashley-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #641: Featuring Ashley Bryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From the poem “Kookoorookoo! Kookoorookoo!”<\/em>
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\nBlooming Beneath the Sun<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Caitlyn Dlouhy\/Atheneum, April 2019), featured here today, evidently sprung from illustrator Ashley Bryan’s<\/a><\/strong> love of the work of 19th century British poet Christina Rossetti<\/a><\/strong>. Gathered in this cheery book are thirteen of her children’s poems, ones that primarily celebrate animals and nature. A couple of lesser-known poems, “Mother Shake the Cherry-Tree” and “Lie-a-Bed,” feature families (the latter illustrated with a woman who seems to be working magic on a child). Most of the poems are Rossetti’s most accessible, child-friendly, nursery rhyme-esque ones \u2014 such as, “Who Has Seen the Wind?” (included below). <\/p>\n

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Bryan’s opening art note in the book states:<\/p>\n

“It is with the scissors that my mother used in sewing and embroidery that I, in turn, used in cutting the colored papers for ALL of the collage compositions in this book. Her hand in mine.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The colors here are vivid and sunny, and more than once Bryan makes surprising color choices: splashes of red in a cat’s fur, pink shades in an orange, rich blue colors in an owl’s fur. Bryan will be 96 next month. May we all age so gracefully. <\/p>\n

Here are a couple more spreads. ….
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— From the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind?”<\/em>
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— From the poem “Mother Shake the Cherry-Tree”<\/em>
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\nBLOOMING BENEATH THE SUN. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by The Ashley Bryan Center, a Main Corporation. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books\/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n

* * * Jules’ Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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1)<\/strong><\/font> Catching up with some friends Wednesday night over mac & cheese and red wine … <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> AND a delicious meal with friends Friday night. Such good company. Lucky me. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> Starting Naomi Novik’s<\/a><\/strong> Spinning Silver<\/a><\/strong><\/em> with my girls.
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\n4)<\/strong><\/font> My new purple vinyl.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> The television adaptation<\/a><\/strong> of Good Omens<\/em>. I don’t want it to end. <\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> Looking forward to seeing The Adventure Zone<\/a><\/strong> at the Ryman this week with my daughters and their friend. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> White Lies<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Investigative journalism at its best. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From the poem “Kookoorookoo! Kookoorookoo!”(Click image to enlarge and read poem in its entirety)   Blooming Beneath the Sun (Caitlyn Dlouhy\/Atheneum, April 2019), featured here today, evidently sprung from illustrator Ashley Bryan’s love of the work of 19th century British poet Christina Rossetti. Gathered in this cheery book are thirteen of her children’s poems, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}