{"id":5541,"date":"2022-03-03T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2022-03-02T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:18:15","slug":"matthew-forsythes-mina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5541","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Forsythe&#8217;s <em>Mina<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t her father,<br \/>who was always bringing home surprises from the outside world.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve a review over at the <em>Horn Book<\/em> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4970\">Matthew Forsythe&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Mina<\/em> (Paula Wiseman Books, February 2022). <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/story\/bookreviews\/review-of-mina\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and below are some of the book&#8217;s glorious spreads. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;But one day her father came home and said, &#8216;Mina! Come outside. I have a really big surprise for you!&#8217; And that&#8217;s when she started to worry.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/mina2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;And over the pond.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/minacoverlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/03\/minacoversmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click cover to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>MINA. \u00a9 2022 by Matthew Forsythe. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Paula Wiseman Books\/Simon &#038; Schuster, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t her father,who was always bringing home surprises from the outside world.&#8221;(Click image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety) &nbsp; I&#8217;ve a review over at the Horn Book of Matthew Forsythe&#8217;s Mina (Paula Wiseman Books, February 2022). That is here, and below are some of the book&#8217;s glorious spreads. 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-5541","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\/5541","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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}