{"id":4973,"date":"2019-10-15T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:18:56","slug":"willow-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"Willow and Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/10\/nguyen_pilu-postb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/10\/stargazing-posta.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Over at the <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> Calling Caldecott this morning, guest poster and librarian extraordinaire Alec Chunn writes about two graphic novels that I myself have read and liked this year. (In fact, he was the one who suggested I read the one pictured above-left.) The two books are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maiknguyen.com\/\">Mai K. Nguyen&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781620105634\">Pilu of the Woods<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Oni Press, April 2019) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/all-dressed-jen-wang\/\">Jen Wang&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781250183880\">Stargazing<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (First Second, September 2019). <\/p>\n<p>I really like what he has to say about the two books, so I&#8217;m sending you in the direction of his post today. That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=caldecomics-2020\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Horn Book&#8217;s Calling Caldecott this morning, guest poster and librarian extraordinaire Alec Chunn writes about two graphic novels that I myself have read and liked this year. (In fact, he was the one who suggested I read the one pictured above-left.) The two books are Mai K. Nguyen&#8217;s Pilu of the Woods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}