{"id":957,"date":"2007-10-24T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=957"},"modified":"2007-10-24T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T19:19:27","slug":"blogging-for-a-cure-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for a Cure, Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/ashley bryan's snowflake2.jpg\">Below is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/eve\/event\/roberts-snow\/default.html\">Robert&#8217;s Snow<\/a><\/strong> illustrator-and-snowflake feature schedule for Wednesday, October 24 (scroll down after clicking &#8220;read the rest of this entry&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/christmas gif1.jpg\">Featured here is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcbooks.org\/cbcmagazine\/meet\/ashleybryan.html\">Ashley Bryan&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> snowflake for this year&#8217;s auction, entitled &#8220;Snow-All&#8221; (*). This snowflake, according to the auction site, was inspired by Bryan&#8217;s illustrations from <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christmas-Gif-Anthology-Stories-African-Americans\/dp\/0688116671\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-8884497-4798331?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1193112407&#038;sr=8-1\">Christmas Gif\u2019: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories Written By and About African-Americans<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, compiled by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipublib.org\/digital\/chiren\/instrollins.html\">Charlemae Hill Rollins<\/a><\/strong> and originally published in 1963 but re-released by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/\">HarperColllins<\/a><\/strong> in 1993 with Bryan&#8217;s illustrations and a new introduction by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augusta_Braxton_Baker\">Augusta Baker<\/a><\/strong>. This snowflake is a &#8220;lino block\u201d print (a method of placing permanent designs on surfaces by carving a pattern on a wood or linoleum block, inking it, and transferring it to the material being decorated). <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/let it shine1.jpg\">Bryan also released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-Shine-Three-Favorite-Spirituals\/dp\/0689847327\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-8884497-4798331?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1186342757&#038;sr=8-1\"><em><strong>Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals<\/strong><\/em><\/a> this year (January; Atheneum), which I reviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=794\">here<\/a><\/strong> in August. This is one beautiful book, featuring Bryan&#8217;s immense talents with cut paper collage. If you haven&#8217;t seen it already, go treat yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Ashley&#8217;s snowflake will be auctioned off in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/faf\/auction\/auctionIndex.asp?ievent=247265&#038;lis=1&#038;kntae247265=22A072B96FB04604935ACCD20C7D75E8\">Auction 3<\/a><\/strong> from December 3 to 7.  <\/p>\n<p>Reminder that in this below schedule, the illustrator&#8217;s name links to his\/her website, but click on the blog to be taken to that blogger&#8217;s snowflake\/illustrator feature: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=4><strong><em><strong>Wednesday, October 24, 2007<\/strong>:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisakleven.com\/\"><strong>Elisa Kleven<\/strong><\/a>, featured by Roz Fulcher at <a href=\"http:\/\/rozzieland.blogs.com\/rozzie_land\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow--2.html\"><em><strong>Rozzie Land<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consiepowell.com\/\">Consie Powell<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Becky at <a href=\"http:\/\/blbooks.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/illustrator-spotlight-consie-powell.html\"><em><strong>Becky&#8217;s Book Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmypickering.com\/\"><strong>Jimmy Pickering<\/strong><\/a>, featured by Gwenda Bond at <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-ji.html\"><em><strong>Shaken &#038; Stirred<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwdormer.com\/\">Frank Dormer<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Adrienne Furness at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watat.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/blogging_for_a_1.html\"><em><strong>What Adrienne Thinks About That<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.teleport.com\/~northpaw\/MainFrameSet.html\">Sheila Bailey<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Elizabeth A. Briggs Jones at <a href=\"http:\/\/lizjonesbooks.livejournal.com\/108238.html\"><em><strong>Lizjonesbooks<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, please don&#8217;t miss <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/notyourmothers\/76230.html\">this feature<\/a><\/strong> on &#8220;foxtacular elficide&#8221; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophieblackall.com\/\">Sophie Blackall<\/a><\/strong> by Jennifer (a.k.a. literaticat) at <em>not your mother&#8217;s bookclub<\/em>. It&#8217;s from yesterday but was posted later in the day, so I&#8217;m pointing it out again so that you won&#8217;t miss that great snowflake. Really, that&#8217;s a top-fiver for me. <\/p>\n<p>Did you see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=955\">yesterday&#8217;s features<\/a><\/strong>? I wish I had time to point out some highlights from all of them, as I enjoyed reading each one. Colleen Mondor, who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_jimmy_fund_me.html\">featured Carin Berger<\/a><\/strong>, shared a moving personal story about her own experiences with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/\">The Jimmy Fund<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brianlies.com\/\">Brian Lies<\/a><\/strong> momentarily broke my heart with this story, which is a good reminder of the power of our words to children. At <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/greetings-from-nowhere.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/blogging-for-cure-presents-brian-lies.html\">her feature of Brian and his snowflake<\/a><\/strong>, Barbara O&#8217;Connor asked, &#8220;What are some of your earliest memories of creating art?&#8221; (love that question), and he responded:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think my earliest memory is from preschool, making papier mache-covered balloon animals. I got in trouble because I was more interested in mooshing my hands around in the flour paste than actually finishing my project.<\/p>\n<p>Another time, in first grade, we did line drawings on burlap and then embroidered the lines with blunt needles. My drawing was of a lion and a tree and I was proud of it, until the art teacher picked out some of my stitching and &#8220;fixed&#8221; it. There was a rule against drawing &#8220;lollipop trees,&#8221; which was sad because that&#8217;s how little kids see a tree&#8211;a stick and a blob on top of it. She hung my lion in the hallway and told me how nice it was, but I couldn&#8217;t even look at it&#8211;it wasn&#8217;t mine any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And you really want to meet Shant\u00e9, as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chickenspaghetti.typepad.com\/chicken_spaghetti\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-sh.html\">featured by Susan at <em>Chicken Spaghetti<\/em><\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to each and every participating blogger for these snowflake\/illustrator features. <\/p>\n<p>As I say every single day in case you&#8217;ve missed it, don&#8217;t forget <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?page_id=935\">this new page<\/a><\/strong> here at 7-Imp, updated daily, which lists <em>all<\/em> the illustrator features thus far in one spot, and it&#8217;s turning into a handy-dandy, way-cool illustrator resource for us Picture Book Nerds. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>* In case this is the first time you&#8217;re reading about the Blogging for a Cure effort, the illustrators and snowflakes that participating bloggers are featuring are only the ones that the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-farber.org\/\">Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<\/a><\/strong> had ready to go when this multi-blog event was organized. Remember that you can see <em>all<\/em> of the snowflakes at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/eve\/event\/roberts-snow\/default.html\">Robert&#8217;s Snow auction site<\/a><\/strong>. There are many more beautiful snowflakes by more talented children&#8217;s book illustrators. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the Robert&#8217;s Snow illustrator-and-snowflake feature schedule for Wednesday, October 24 (scroll down after clicking &#8220;read the rest of this entry&#8221;). Featured here is Ashley Bryan&#8217;s snowflake for this year&#8217;s auction, entitled &#8220;Snow-All&#8221; (*). This snowflake, according to the auction site, was inspired by Bryan&#8217;s illustrations from Christmas Gif\u2019: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-snow-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}