{"id":21700,"date":"2013-09-28T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=21700"},"modified":"2014-05-05T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:13:06","slug":"farther-by-grahame-baker-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/farther-by-grahame-baker-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/FArTHER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25541\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/FArTHER-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"FArTHER\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Certain books make me terribly selfish\u00a0\u2013 because once I finish a post, the book gets cleared off my desk and either shelved or shared.\u00a0British author\/artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/artistGrahameBakerSmith.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grahame Baker-Smith<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>FArTHER<\/em> \u2013 the many meanings in the title alone, achieved with just the lower-casing of that single &#8216;r&#8217; provokes goosebumps of awe!\u00a0\u2013 has been parked on my desk for months and months &#8230; and still I hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>Baker-Smith won the coveted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk\/greenaway\/full_list_of_winners.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kate Greenaway Medal<\/a>, one of Britain&#8217;s highest honors for illustration, in 2011, a year after its release. That the voyage over the Pond to reach Stateside shelves took three years is rather surprising, but readers can gratefully bask in the recent safe landing.<\/p>\n<p>So are we ready for the story &#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>A father dreams &#8220;of air and flight,&#8221; so much so that his son must sit in his lap &#8220;until he remembered me.&#8221; His creations are stupendous, but they never carry him aloft &#8230; war, tragically, is eventually what takes him away. His son, now grown, claims his father&#8217;s dreams and finally soars. And then the son&#8217;s son arrives in the world with new possibilities: &#8220;What will he do, I wonder &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the words, Baker-Smith&#8217;s art is gawwww-inducingly spectacular. Collaging occasional photographs (he thanks a borrowed hound, Rodney Seal, and his cooperative owners for the canine camera time) with various textures and original drawings, Baker-Smith creates a faraway, wondrous world of bittersweet memory and beckoning promise. Each page is a treasure hunt, from avian curtains and tiles, to a calligraphied letter marked with 1768 (because &#8230; it&#8217;s a leap year?), to the bare outline of a father&#8217;s supporting hand, to a toddler&#8217;s outstretched touch upon a stilled bird. Each page, too, is a reminder\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the beckoning skies, a lofty balcony, even rough seas \u2013 to\u00a0always be open to dreams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: All<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2010, 2013 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain books make me terribly selfish\u00a0\u2013 because once I finish a post, the book gets cleared off my desk and either shelved or shared.\u00a0British author\/artist\u00a0Grahame Baker-Smith&#8216;s\u00a0FArTHER \u2013 the many meanings in the title alone, achieved with just the lower-casing of that single &#8216;r&#8217; provokes goosebumps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,5,114,62,6,30,31],"tags":[32,6608,75,10,764,189,765,39,45],"class_list":["post-21700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-absolute-favorites","category-adult-readers","category-british","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-young-adult-readers","tag-adventure","tag-bookdragon","tag-death","tag-family","tag-farther","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-grahame-baker-smith","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/farther-by-grahame-baker-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Certain books make me terribly selfish\u00a0\u2013 because once I finish a post, the book gets cleared off my desk and either shelved or shared.\u00a0British author\/artist\u00a0Grahame Baker-Smith&#8216;s\u00a0FArTHER \u2013 the many meanings in the title alone, achieved with just the lower-casing of that single &#8216;r&#8217; 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