{"id":1413,"date":"2020-01-27T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2020-11-23T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:08:53","slug":"one-of-a-kind-a-new-book-by-neil-packer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/one-of-a-kind-a-new-book-by-neil-packer\/","title":{"rendered":"One of a Kind, a new book by Neil Packer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers-521x414.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers-785x624.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/coverpers-906x720.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Publishing in the Walker Studio imprint, this witty, magnificently-illustrated book plays with the idea of &#8220;sorting&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe animal kingdom, modes of transport, musical instruments, art and architectural movements, cloud classification &#8230; anything and everything can be sorted into groups! Framed by a charming narrative about a father and son, this is a book about categories; on a journey into town, a boy called Arvo explores the many ways in which we classify the world around us, to charming &#8211; and often amusing &#8211; effect. <em>One of a Kind<\/em> marks Neil Packer&#8217;s debut as an author-illustrator, following his extraordinary artwork for Peter Frankopan&#8217;s <em>The Silk Roads<\/em>. With a witty text and breathtaking pictures, this story deserves its title: a true original by a remarkable talent. Published in October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishing in the Walker Studio imprint, this witty, magnificently-illustrated book plays with the idea of &#8220;sorting&#8221;. The animal kingdom, modes of transport, musical instruments, art and architectural movements, cloud classification &#8230; anything and everything can be sorted into groups! Framed by a charming narrative about a father and son, this is a book about categories; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}