{"id":4987,"date":"2019-11-08T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:46:04","slug":"the-2019-new-york-times-new-york-public-library-best-illustrated-childrens-books-featuring-a-million-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 New York Times\/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Books, Featuring A Million Dots<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n
 

\nDid you see the announcement a week ago today of the 2019 New York Times\/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Books? I always look forward to this list. The 2019 books \u2014 as chosen by judges Bruce Handy, Jessica Cline, and Jillian Tamaki \u2014 are here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, I’m featuring some spreads from one of those books \u2014 Sven V\u00f6lker’s<\/a><\/strong> A Million Dots<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Cicada, September 2019). The book opens with the one tree you see above, and by the time you are done reading it, you have counted to a million (over a million, actually). And that is because with each page turn, you are doubling the number you see. So, you go from 1 to 2 to 4 to 8 to 16 to 32 to …. You get the idea. All the way up to 1,048,576, which appears in a dramatic gatefold spread. All of this is laid out in V\u00f6lker’s uncluttered and pleasing graphic style. Yes, a million dots are involved. “[H]ow quickly two (trees) begets 256 (freckles),” writes one of the NYT<\/em> judges. <\/p>\n

Take a look for yourself ….
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n

(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n<\/a>
\n
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
\n
 

\n
\n
 

\n
* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n

A MILLION DOTS. Concept, illustration and design by Sven V\u00f6lker. First published 2019. Copyright \u00a9 Cicada Books Limited. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Did you see the announcement a week ago today of the 2019 New York Times\/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Books? I always look forward to this list. The 2019 books \u2014 as chosen by judges Bruce Handy, Jessica Cline, and Jillian Tamaki \u2014 are here. Today, I’m featuring some spreads from one […]<\/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-4987","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\/4987","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=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}