{"id":4960,"date":"2019-09-26T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:16:21","slug":"mordicai-gerstein-a-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Mordicai Gerstein: A Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/09\/mg.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nOver at the <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> Calling Caldecott today, we pay tribute to author-illustrator Mordicai Gerstein, whose death we learned about this week. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=mordicai-gerstein-a-tribute\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll find my copy of <em>Applesauce Season<\/em> \u2014 my favorite book for autumn, which he illustrated for Eden Ross Lipson \u2014 and spend some time with it. Not to mention the exquisite <em>The Man Who Walked Between the Towers<\/em>. Gerstein&#8217;s legacy is a very tall stack of lovingly crafted picture books. <\/p>\n<p>My condolences to Gerstein&#8217;s family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Over at the Horn Book&#8217;s Calling Caldecott today, we pay tribute to author-illustrator Mordicai Gerstein, whose death we learned about this week. That is here. I think I&#8217;ll find my copy of Applesauce Season \u2014 my favorite book for autumn, which he illustrated for Eden Ross Lipson \u2014 and spend some time with it. [&hellip;]<\/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-4960","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\/4960","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=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}