{"id":5109,"date":"2020-05-21T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:41:55","slug":"flashing-and-gleaming-with-sue-fliess-and-khoa-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5109","title":{"rendered":"Flashing and Gleaming with Sue Fliess and Khoa Le"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Swirl \/ Flow \/ Come and go”<\/em>
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\nToday, I’ve a few spreads from Flash and Gleam: Light in Our World<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Millbrook, March 2020), written by Sue Fliess<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Khoa Le<\/a><\/strong>. This is an exploration of light via a series of spare rhymes, as you can see in the spreads here \u2014 the light of fireflies, the lightning of a storm, rays of sunlight waking sleeping children, the light of a birthday candle, lights meant to heal, and much more. <\/p>\n

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Despite these everyday occurrences of light, illustrator Le also depicts a wide array of families who celebrate various religious holidays \u2014 an Indian family celebrating Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights); a family celebrating Christmas (with lights twinkling on a tree); a group of people enjoying the fireworks of the Fourth of July; a Thai family participating in a Yi Peng festival (sky lanterns alight); and a family celebrating Hanukkah (lighting a menorah). Le \u2014 who lives in Vietnam and has illustrated picture books published in a number of other countries \u2014 brings vividly colored and highly patterned artwork to these verses, as you can see here today. <\/p>\n

The book’s backmatter includes a spread about both the science of light (text and a diagram that defines light, as well as notes on lightning, rainbows, the northern lights, fireflies, and moonlight) and a note on the celebrations and holidays included in the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the spreads!
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“Lights \/ Rise \/ Open eyes”<\/em>
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“Burst \/ Create \/ Illuminate”<\/em>
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“Gleam \/ Bright … \/ Say good night.”<\/em>
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FLASH AND GLEAM: LIGHT IN OUR WORLD. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Sue Fliess. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2020 by Khoa Le. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Millbrook Press, Minneapolis, MN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Swirl \/ Flow \/ Come and go”(Click to enlarge spread)   Today, I’ve a few spreads from Flash and Gleam: Light in Our World (Millbrook, March 2020), written by Sue Fliess and illustrated by Khoa Le. This is an exploration of light via a series of spare rhymes, as you can see in the spreads […]<\/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-5109","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\/5109","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=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}