Seriously Norman! by Chris Raschka, Mint copy in New Dust Jacket, signed by the author, 8 vo., Scholatic Press, 2011. (L2RB) Ages 8-12 <\/p>\n
“For that ambidextrous creature known as the author-illustrator \u2014 or at least for the best among them \u2014 story and art, like mind and body, are almost impossible to pull apart. Certainly, the visual and verbal sides of the Caldecott medalist Chris Raschka, whose prose and illustration come across as seamlessly and elegantly intertwined, make it hard to argue that a book\u2019s text or illustration are entirely separate entities.<\/p>\n
Raschka is known mostly for his picture books, but words have been essential to him too, in a minimalist way. His first book for older readers, \u201cSeriously, Norman!\u201d though dotted with black-and-white spot drawings, is a novel through and through, populated by outsize characters and driven \u2014 after a fashion \u2014 by story. Yes, this is a \u201creal\u201d novel, and it\u2019s a very amusing one. But reading it is a visual, loopy, absurdist experience, not exactly like reading most novels, and less like looking at a picture than entering one.” —New York Times<\/a> <\/em>review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seriously Norman! by Chris Raschka, Mint copy in New Dust Jacket, signed by the author, 8 vo., Scholatic Press, 2011. (L2RB) Ages 8-12 “For that ambidextrous creature known as the author-illustrator \u2014 or at least for the best among them \u2014 story and art, like mind and body, are almost impossible to pull apart. Certainly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78728,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[124],"product_tag":[656,332],"class_list":["post-78727","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-young-adult","product_tag-chris-raschka","product_tag-signed-first-edition","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/78727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=78727"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=78727"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=78727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}