{"id":414,"date":"2009-03-11T22:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/review-of-sandys-circus-by-tanya-lee-stone\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:31:49","slug":"review-of-sandys-circus-by-tanya-lee-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Review of Sandy&#8217;s Circus, by Tanya Lee Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image413\" height=\"207\" alt=\"sandys_circus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sandys_circus.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sandy&#8217;s Circus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Story About Alexander Calder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Tanya Lee Stone<\/p>\n<p>illustrated by Boris Kulikov<\/p>\n<p>Viking, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another delightful picture book biography.\u00a0 It gives you a feel for what the artist has done and makes you want to know more.\u00a0 The story is told on a level that will intrigue both children and adults.\u00a0 I especially enjoy the playful illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There once was an artist named Alexander Calder.\u00a0 Only he didn&#8217;t call himself Alexander.\u00a0 And he didn&#8217;t call the things he made art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Lee Stone and Boris Kulikov beautifully capture the inventive, experimental quality of Sandy Calder&#8217;s art.\u00a0 They show how he playfully created a moving, working circus out of wire.\u00a0 His art was more than a static display to look at.\u00a0 It was a show where things happened.<\/p>\n<p>The author tells us that &#8220;even the mobiles that hang over baby cribs would not exist without Calder.&#8221;\u00a0 This is the story of a man who brought a sense of play into his life&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670062685\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy&#8217;s Circus A Story About Alexander Calder by Tanya Lee Stone illustrated by Boris Kulikov Viking, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages. Here&#8217;s another delightful picture book biography.\u00a0 It gives you a feel for what the artist has done and makes you want to know more.\u00a0 The story is told on a level that will intrigue both children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,12,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-picture-book-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}