{"id":5496,"date":"2022-01-04T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2022-01-04T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:21:16","slug":"cornbread-poppymy-bookpage-chat-with-matthew-cordell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5496","title":{"rendered":"Cornbread & Poppy<\/em>:
My BookPage<\/em> chat with Matthew Cordell"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nCaldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell ventures into the world of early readers with his new book, Cornbread & Poppy<\/em>. Over at BookPage<\/em>, I chat with him about this. That Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

And here<\/a><\/strong> is my review of the book. <\/p>\n

Below are some early sketches from the book as well as some final art. (Pictured above is the book’s title-page illustration.) I thank Matt for sharing!<\/p>\n


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Early Sketches:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Four images above: Character sketch and early book sketches<\/em><\/center>
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Some Final Art:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Cornbread was home, putting away all he had foraged from harvest time:
fruit preserves, grains, and cheeses.”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘Shouldn’t have waited so long!’ said Old Larry, the town grump.”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘Ms. Ruthie went up Holler Mountain to forage for food. She never came back!'”<\/em><\/center>
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“Up the mountain they went. The snow continued to fall.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Just then, a large shadow flew over their path. They looked up.”<\/em>
(Click spread to enlarge)<\/center>
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(Click cover to enlarge)<\/em><\/center>
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CORNBREAD & POPPY. Copyright \u00a9 2022 by Matthew Cordell. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York. All images reproduced by permission of Matthew Cordell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell ventures into the world of early readers with his new book, Cornbread & Poppy. Over at BookPage, I chat with him about this. That Q&A is here. And here is my review of the book. Below are some early sketches from the book as well as some final art. (Pictured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","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=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}