{"id":4897,"date":"2019-06-19T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:28:04","slug":"duckworth-the-difficult-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Duckworth, the Difficult Child<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“But after taking a nap, Duckworth was practicing his recorder
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\nIn the mood for a send-up of modern parenting? If so, you can head over to BookPage<\/em> for my review of Michael Sussman’s<\/a><\/strong> Duckworth, the Difficult Child<\/em> (Atheneum, June 2019), illustrated by J\u00falia Sard\u00e0<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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

Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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“He looked up and saw a gigantic
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“Duckworth dashed downstairs, where he found his parents sitting together on the sofa. They were reading a book called <\/em>Dealing with Your Difficult Child. …”
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“‘But it’s a <\/em>real snake,’ Duckworth insisted. ‘It hissed at me.'”<\/em>
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“By the time Duckworth finished his chores, he was so tired that he had,
in fact, forgotten all about the snake.”<\/em>
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“… swallowed him whole!”<\/em>
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DUCKWORTH, THE DIFFICULT CHILD. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Michael Sussman. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 by J\u00falia Sard\u00e0 and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“But after taking a nap, Duckworth was practicing his recorder when the cobra slithered right up and …”(Click to enlarge spread)   In the mood for a send-up of modern parenting? If so, you can head over to BookPage for my review of Michael Sussman’s Duckworth, the Difficult Child (Atheneum, June 2019), illustrated by J\u00falia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","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=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}