{"id":1149,"date":"2014-08-25T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2014-08-25T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:34:34","slug":"sneaky-peeks-video-13-tom-angleberger-discusses-the-qwikpick-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Peeks Video #13: Tom Angleberger discusses The Qwikpick Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books.]<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, my former co-blogger and I (Jules, that is) wrote about a little book called\u00a0<em style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #330000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Qwikpick-Adventure-Society-Sam-Riddleburger\/dp\/0803731787\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-8884497-4798331?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1190431091&amp;sr=8-1\">The Qwikpick Adventure Society<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by someone named\u00a0<a style=\"color: #330000;\" href=\"http:\/\/sam.riddleburger.com\/\">Sam Riddleburger<\/a>. (That conversation is at <a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=825\">this link<\/a>.) We loved this book, particularly\u00a0for how it touched upon class issues in a way that wasn&#8217;t heavy-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Now the book has been re-issued by Abrams&#8217; Amulet Books as <em>The Qwikpick Papers: Poop Fountain!<\/em>\u00a0And Sam Riddleburger is really <a href=\"http:\/\/origamiyoda.com\/\">Tom Angleberger<\/a>, who has since written the bestselling <em>Origami Yoda<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p>When we asked Tom if he&#8217;d like to give us a behind-the-scenes <em>Qwikpick<\/em>\u00a0fun fact, he obliged:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZYGH-LmT_M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To read more about the book, you can see Betsy&#8217;s thoughts at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2014\/06\/04\/my-first-re-review-the-qwikpick-papers-poop-fountain-by-tom-angleberger\/#_\">this link<\/a>; in June, she re-printed her own 2007 review of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book\u00a0Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature\u00a0by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books.] Back in 2007, my former co-blogger and I (Jules, that is) wrote about a little book called\u00a0The Qwikpick Adventure Society\u00a0by someone named\u00a0Sam Riddleburger. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}