{"id":3819,"date":"2007-02-18T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/02\/18\/3819.html"},"modified":"2007-02-18T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T03:19:41","slug":"slobodkin-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/02\/18\/slobodkin-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Slobodkin site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/\">Io Sono<\/a>, her new site honoring the life and work of author and illustrator Louis Slobodkin, whose 104th birthday would have been tomorrow, February 19.<\/p>\n<p>I'm most familiar with Slobodkin as the author and illustrator of the <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/books\/target98.html\">Space Ship under the Apple Tree<\/a><\/cite> series of kids' books (remember those, Jay H?), but he's also well known as (among other things) an illustrator; for example, he illustrated Eleanor Estes's <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/books\/target91.html\">The Moffats<\/a><\/cite> as well as several of her other books, and he won a Caldecott Medal with James Thurber for <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/books\/target45.html\">Many Moons<\/a><\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>The site features a bunch of Slobodkin-related material.  For example, it includes a copy of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/misc\/caldecott_307.html\">Caldecott Medal acceptance speech<\/a>, as published in the July-August 1944 issue of <cite>Horn Book<\/cite> magazine, which includes an account of meeting the Esteses, who were the first librarians he'd met, and who started him on his path to children's-book illustration.  From that same issue, there's a reprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/misc\/estes_299.html\">Eleanor Estes's tribute to Slobodkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And there's lots more on the site that I haven't mentioned, including a page listing most or all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slobodkin.org\/books\/\">books he wrote or illustrated<\/a>.  Go check it out!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about Io Sono, her new site honoring the life and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}