{"id":5494,"date":"2021-12-30T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2021-12-29T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:10:58","slug":"when-i-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"When I Wake Up<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve a review over at the Horn Book<\/em> of Seth Fishman’s<\/a><\/strong> When I Wake Up<\/em> (Greenwillow, December 2021), illustrated by Jessixa Bagley<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 an adventurous tribute to the imagination of children and a day\u2019s endless opportunities. And here at 7-Imp today, Jessixa shares things like early sketches and character tests, and some final spreads are also pictured below. I thank Jessixa for sharing. (Pictured above is an early character sketch.)<\/p>\n

The review is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n


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Preliminary Images:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Three images above: Character sketches
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Character tests
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Character paint tests
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Color blocking tests
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Some Final Spreads:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Maybe I will put on my clothes and start my own day.
Maybe I will do whatever I want to do.”
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“I could make breakfast. Or build a city. Or take my scooter down the alley.
Maybe I could even borrow Mom’s little shovel for the garden.”
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“Maybe I’ll get marshmallows for breakfast too. I tug on the horses’ pink manes and launch them into the sky. And when foerver is over, I’ll climb the gigantic weeping willow. I don’t even need a boost. My mom says not to kill spiders. They help up catch mosquitoes. But I’m scared of spiders.”
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Jessixa: “When I was looking for sketches for this [post], I recalled that there were upwards of 20 variations I came up with for the cover.
Odd to imagine because of how simple it ended up being!”
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WHEN I WAKE UP. Text copyright \u00a9 2021 by Seth Fishman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2021 by Jessixa Bagley and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow Books, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Jessixa Bagley.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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