{"id":5127,"date":"2020-06-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:39:00","slug":"antoinette-portiss-a-new-green-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"Antoinette Portis’s A New Green Day<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’ve got a review over at the Horn Book<\/em> of Antoinette Portis’s<\/a><\/strong> A New Green Day<\/em> (Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, April 2020). That review is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Below, I’ve some pages from the book. If you read the review, you’ll see that the recto of each spread presents a riddle and the verso, the answer. Three examples of that are presented here, though I highly recommend you find a copy of the book, if possible, to hold in your hands. The page turns are compelling. <\/p>\n


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A NEW GREEN DAY. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Antoinette Portis. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click cover to enlarge)   I’ve got a review over at the Horn Book of Antoinette Portis’s A New Green Day (Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, April 2020). That review is here. Below, I’ve some pages from the book. If you read the review, you’ll see that the recto of each spread presents a riddle and […]<\/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-5127","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\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}