{"id":9250,"date":"2017-07-29T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2017-07-29T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T23:49:13","slug":"duck-death-and-the-tulip-by-wolf-erlbruchtranslated-by-catherine-chidgeygecko-press-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/duck-death-and-the-tulip-by-wolf-erlbruchtranslated-by-catherine-chidgeygecko-press-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf ErlbruchTranslated by Catherine ChidgeyGecko Press, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I originally read this picture book (which was originally published in German in 2007) back in April, when I was visiting a dear friend in New Zealand. I was in the middle of a break-up and was feeling pretty overwhelmingly sad, and she had this book checked out from the library and left it outside the door of the room I was staying in for me to read. I read it, and liked it, enough that I kept thinking about it and eventually checked it out from the library back home in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p>The art is really lovely, with cut-out style pencil drawings of our protagonists (Duck and Death) and other collage elements, too. The text is straightforward but graceful and sometimes funny, in a way that works with the story, in which Duck learns of the presence of Death in her life\/in life in general, and becomes comfortable with him, despite how fearful she is at first. The whole thing is excellent: I mean, look at this page (and don&#8217;t mind my hand; I was precariously balancing the book on the arm of the couch to take this picture):<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plangently\/35417868614\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Duck\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4294\/35417868614_c5622f6416_z.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Duck\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can see more from this book on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/05\/04\/duck-death-and-the-tulip-wolf-erlbruch\/\">Brain Pickings<\/a>, though scrolling through the images on a screen isn&#8217;t quite as satisfying (for me, anyway) as turning pages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally read this picture book (which was originally published in German in 2007) back in April, when I was visiting a dear friend in New Zealand. I was in the middle of a break-up and was feeling pretty overwhelmingly sad, and she had this book checked out from the library and left it outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}