{"id":5506,"date":"2022-01-20T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:15:46","slug":"a-visit-to-kat-hats-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Kat Hats<\/em> Before Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of the mighty entertaining Kat Hats<\/em> (Abrams, February 2022), written by Daniel Pinkwater<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Aaron Renier<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and below are some of Renier’s gouache illustrations. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Neither is a Kat Hat a hat for humans to wear, which represents or resembles a cat. This would be delightful and also fashionable \u2014 but what Kat Hats Incorporated produces in the old Catworks in Pretzelburg are specially trained cats. It is a cat trainery.”<\/em>
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“‘Let us serenade our brave Thermal Herman 6\u215eths, and also Thirdbeard and his mommy, Chickarina the witch,’ Matt Katz said. The Katz family took out their brand-new harmonicas. ‘The piece we will play is “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” by
Mister Wolfgang A. Mozart. One, two, three, begin!'”<\/em>
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\nKAT HATS. Text \u00a9 2022 by Daniel Pinkwater. Illustrations \u00a9 2022 by Aaron Renier and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve a review over at BookPage of the mighty entertaining Kat Hats (Abrams, February 2022), written by Daniel Pinkwater and illustrated by Aaron Renier. That review is here, and below are some of Renier’s gouache illustrations. Enjoy!<\/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-5506","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\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}