{"id":5012,"date":"2019-12-19T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:33:24","slug":"the-shortest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5012","title":{"rendered":"The Shortest Day<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early sketch and final art: “All the long echoes sing the same delight \/
This shortest day \/ As promise wakens in the sleeping land.”<\/em>
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\nAt the risk of appearing super lazy, I’m doing today what I did on Thursday<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 I’m sending you over to another blog to read something. Megan Dowd Lambert has a post up over at Calling Caldecott<\/em> today about Susan Cooper’s The Shortest Day<\/em>, illustrated by Carson Ellis. The post is, of course, focused on the book’s illustrations. I love the deep dive that Megan takes into this book. <\/p>\n

That post is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Here at 7-Imp, I’ve got some spreads from the book, and Carson also sent along some early sketches. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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Sketch and final art<\/em>
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Final art: “They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen …”<\/em>
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Sketch and final art: “And so do we, here, now,
This year, and every year. \/ Welcome Yule!”<\/em>
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(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center>
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THE SHORTEST DAY. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Susan Cooper. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Carson Ellis and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. Sketches reproduced by permission of Carson Ellis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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