{"id":5322,"date":"2018-05-16T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:20:09","slug":"309j-a-picture-of-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/309j-a-picture-of-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"309J: A picture of mother (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">There is a book from my childhood that I think about often. I would be forever grateful if you could help unite me with it. I don&#8217;t have a title for you, but here is what I know:<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">1) It is a picture book for children.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">2) I read the book as a child in the early 80s.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">3) Plot: It is a book about a child (might be an animal child, not sure) that wants to make a picture of his mother. He starts out making the picture on his own and feels he needs advice, so he \u00a0takes it to different animal characters to see what they think. Each animal looks at the picture and makes a suggestion to change it somehow to reflect a feature of that animal (for example: the elephant suggests that the nose be lengthened). By the end of the book the picture has a variety of different features that look nothing like the mom.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">Sadly, I cannot remember much else. I have tried to imagine the title and the best I could guess at is &#8220;A Picture of Mother&#8221; or something of the sort. But I could be way off.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">This books stands out to me now as a message about trusting your own judgement in creating art (or writing) and not allowing yourself to be so easily influenced by the opinions of others. <i>Let your work be your own.<\/i> I&#8217;m not sure if that was the message it had intended to give, but it comes to mind now as I pursue my own writing career. I&#8217;d love to have this message bearer as a tangible reminder of this lesson.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydpc1473879text ydpc1473879ng-binding\">Please help me, for you may be my only hope. Thank you for your time and effort.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a book from my childhood that I think about often. I would be forever grateful if you could help unite me with it. I don&#8217;t have a title for you, but here is what I know: 1) It is a picture book for children. 2) I read the book as a child in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}