{"id":236,"date":"2009-03-04T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/03\/04\/bookish-breakfast-cereal-finalists\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T08:10:00","slug":"bookish-breakfast-cereal-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Bookish Breakfast Cereal Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gareth and I found it quite a challenge to choose one favorite entry from among all those submitted to our name a bookish breakfast cereal<\/a> challenge. We narrowed down the full list to a "short list" of favorites, which are as follows:<\/p>\n

Cap’n Ahab Crunch<\/strong> (submitted by karenf and WouldBe)<\/p>\n

Children of the Corn Flakes<\/strong> (submitted by Boni Ashburn)

Grape Nuts of Wrath<\/strong> (submitted by Erin McInnis, Nancy Mills, and John Hamilton)<\/p>\n

Gravity’s Rainbow Crunch<\/strong> (submitted by Mary Ann Rodman)

Othell O’s<\/strong> (submitted by Karen Ruelle and Deborah Galarza)<\/p>\n

Robert Frosted Flakes<\/strong> (submitted by sflax and WouldBe)<\/p>\n

From this list we then chose two finalists, based on their high scores for both "cleverness" and "ease of concept" (because some of these are a lot easier to illustrate than others!).<\/p>\n

The two finalists are Grape Nuts of Wrath<\/strong> and Robert Frosted Flakes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gareth has done concept sketches for both of these (with my design input) and will soon be doing a more "finished" illustration based on one of those sketches. Stay tuned to see the results!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, you can watch this video featuring a cereal parody that’s VERY similar (in concept) to one of our finalists:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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For those of you unfamiliar with Czeslaw Milosz, you’ll find a nice introduction to both the man and his poetry on the Poetry Foundation<\/a> website. While you’re there and we’re on the subject of Polish poets (AND in honor of Darwin’s recent 200th birthday anniversary<\/a>), read the poem "Consolation<\/a>" by Wislawa Szymborska. Like Frost and Milosz, she’s a poet well worth knowing<\/a>. Even if her name doesn’t lend itself too well to cereal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gareth and I found it quite a challenge to choose one favorite entry from among all those submitted to our name a bookish breakfast cereal challenge. We narrowed down the full list to a “short list” of favorites, which are as follows: Cap’n Ahab Crunch (submitted by karenf and WouldBe) Children of the Corn Flakes (submitted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}