{"id":5054,"date":"2020-03-05T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:55:30","slug":"joni-the-lyrical-life-of-joni-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5054","title":{"rendered":"Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbove is a peek into author-illustrator Selina Alko’s<\/a><\/strong> sketchbook as she was working on her newest picture book, Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell<\/em> (Harper, February 2020). <\/p>\n

I reviewed this one for BookPage<\/em> \u2014 that review is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you’d like to read about the book \u2014 and below are more peeks into Selina’s sketchbook, a look at some early sketches, and a couple of final spreads from the book. I thank Selina for sharing. <\/p>\n


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A Couple of Final Spreads:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Joni Mitchell painted with words. Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar,
she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas,
saying things that were not only happy or sad but true.”<\/em>
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JONI: THE LYRICAL LIFE OF JONI MITCHELL. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Selina Alko. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Selina Alko.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click image to enlarge)   Above is a peek into author-illustrator Selina Alko’s sketchbook as she was working on her newest picture book, Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell (Harper, February 2020). I reviewed this one for BookPage \u2014 that review is here, if you’d like to read about the book \u2014 and below […]<\/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-5054","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\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}