{"id":5221,"date":"2020-11-03T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T02:29:49","slug":"chris-raschkas-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5221","title":{"rendered":"Chris Raschka’s In the City<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Clouds and treetops are their homes, \/ airy houses all their own.
Could a friend be waiting for me? \/ Too hoo, too hoo. \/ Coo coo, coo coo.”<\/em>
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\nI’ve a review over at the Horn Book<\/em> of Chris Raschka’s<\/a><\/strong> beautiful In the City<\/em> (Atheneum\/Richard Jackson Books, September 2020). <\/p>\n

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

Below are some more spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Oops, they\u2019ve scattered to the sidewalk \/ \u2014how they squabble, how they do talk\u2014
finding yesterday\u2019s old bagels \/ underneath the picnic tables.
Perhaps I\u2019ll meet my friend today. \/ Yoo hoo, yoo hoo. \/ Coo coo, coo coo.”<\/em>
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“Look! The colors on their necks \/ flash in rainbow-tinted flecks.
Doo doo, doo doo. \/ Coo coo, coo coo.”<\/em>
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“I suppose it\u2019s in the air. \/ All my answers are up there.”<\/em>
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IN THE CITY. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Chris Raschka. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Atheneum\/Richard Jackson Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Clouds and treetops are their homes, \/ airy houses all their own.Could a friend be waiting for me? \/ Too hoo, too hoo. \/ Coo coo, coo coo.”(Click spread to enlarge)   I’ve a review over at the Horn Book of Chris Raschka’s beautiful In the City (Atheneum\/Richard Jackson Books, September 2020). That is here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","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=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}