{"id":1111,"date":"2015-11-06T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2015-11-06T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:22:05","slug":"a-vote-for-the-little-red-publishing-hen-is-a-vote-against-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/a-vote-for-the-little-red-publishing-hen-is-a-vote-against-big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vote for The Little Red Publishing Hen is a Vote Against Big Picture!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen. What I’m about to tell you may shock and upset you. For a great many people it won’t be surprising, in the least. But I feel it needs to be said.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Brutal World of Big Picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For too long, Big Picture has run the picture book business. You know who I mean. Mo Willems. Oliver Jeffers. Drew Daywalt. Maurice Sendak. Sandra “Big Town” Boynton.<\/p>\n

Do you guys really want Big Picture to\u00c2\u00a0continue<\/em> to dominate our picture book lives?<\/p>\n

Well, if you don’t go out and vote for\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0Little Red Publishing Hen<\/a><\/em> in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015<\/a>, that’s what very well might happen.<\/p>\n

We may wind up living in a world of lawlessness where pigeons harass you to borrow your car (despite not having a license), animals are encouraged towards slothfulness with an excessive number of naps, and unionized crayons. Do you really want that? Do you want that on your head? I don’t think you do.<\/p>\n

\"Amongst<\/a>
Amongst other things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But a world in which a plucky young hen can raise a family (and all that that entails), write and then\u00c2\u00a0publish<\/em> a book? Well, sir and or madam,\u00c2\u00a0that’s<\/em> the kind of world I want to live in.<\/p>\n

So this November 6th through the 8th or so, I want you to get out there to the polls<\/a> and show Big Picture the type of stories you\u00c2\u00a0want<\/em> to see, and vote for\u00c2\u00a0The Little Red Publishing Hen<\/a> <\/em>(instructions here <\/a>for those of you\u00c2\u00a0just joining us).<\/p>\n

Take back our stories!<\/p>\n

\"Verano<\/a>
Verano in the sea, waiting for your vote… for the little red publishing hen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also, here’s a very personal anecdote, from 2013<\/a>. In 2013 a plucky young\u00c2\u00a0fish<\/em> roared into the Goodreads Choice Awards, full of hope and vim and vigor. He kept up with those giants of Big Picture for a few days but was ultimately cast aside in favor of Drew “Da Hammer” Daywalt and Oliver “Bearpaws” Jeffers and their evil army of lazy crayons. Don’t let the same thing happen again. Please don’t let the same thing happen again. Please get out and vote for The Little Red Publishing Hen<\/em><\/a>. Find a relative who may not yet be connected to the internet, connect them to it, and have them visit the Goodreads Best Picture Book page<\/a> and write in “the little red publishing hen”. Or at least create an account in their name and then vote for them.<\/p>\n

Don’t let Big Picture tell us what to do, vote for\u00c2\u00a0The Little Red Publishing Hen<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen. What I’m about to tell you may shock and upset you. For a great many people it won’t be surprising, in the least. But I feel it needs to be said. For too long, Big Picture has run the picture book business. You know who I mean. Mo Willems. Oliver Jeffers. Drew Daywalt. Maurice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidslit","category-lrph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}