{"id":686,"date":"2010-03-24T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2010\/03\/24\/bookish-birdhouses-frances-and-mary\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:00:47","slug":"bookish-birdhouses-frances-and-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Bookish Birdhouses: Frances and Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many of you have told me that you love (and miss seeing!) the birdhouses<\/a> I’ve made using picture books, so I thought I’d post a few more here every now and again, for your viewing pleasure. In all I think I’ve made close to 20 of these, almost all of them as gifts for other people. Among the few still in my possession, though, are my very first bookish birdhouse<\/a> (from Book Fiesta<\/em>) and this one, created using Bedtime for Frances<\/a><\/em>, a book written by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Garth Williams, and very dear to my heart.
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\nfront<\/em>
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\nleft<\/em>
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\nback<\/em>
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\nright<\/em> (What you can’t see here is the crack in the ceiling that Frances is staring at, fearfully, from her place on the bed below. The crack is visible on the birdhouse, though, if you look up under the overhanging portion of the roof!)
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\nta da!<\/em> (I’m so pleased with this one.)
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\nThe next birdhouse, below, was in a previous life an F&G for Mary Poppins from A to Z<\/em><\/a> written by P. L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard. Now, it is a birdhouse in the home of Jane Kohuth, one of our wonderful children’s booksellers who is also a soon-to-be author. (Random House recently acquired 2 books by her!) Funny thing: I chose Mary Poppins because Jane is fond of classic illustrated children’s novels in this vein. It was only after I’d given it to her that she pointed out the fact that she and her husband have the same names as Mary Poppins’ charges — Jane and Michael!
\nfront <\/em>(almost)
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\nleft<\/em>
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\nback<\/em>
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\nright<\/em> (hmm… Mary’s face is jolly well blocked by the overhang…)
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\n<\/a>
\nright, take 2<\/em> (AND now Mary’s face is in shadow…)
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\nright, take 3<\/em> (AND now the whole thing is blurry, but you get the idea, right? Whew.)
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\nIf you’re interested I’ll\u00a0happily show more of these creations at a future date. I’ll also put together a how-to if any of you want more than\u00a0my quick & dirty set of instructions, which are:
\n1. Buy cheap birdhouse.
\n2. Remove perches.
\n3. Paint it.
\n4. Glue pages to it.
\n5. Put pencils where perches where.
\nDone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many of you have told me that you love (and miss seeing!) the birdhouses I’ve made using picture books, so I thought I’d post a few more here every now and again, for your viewing pleasure. In all I think I’ve made close to 20 of these, almost all of them as gifts for […]<\/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-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}