{"id":21098,"date":"2018-12-11T07:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=21098"},"modified":"2018-12-11T07:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:44:34","slug":"the-secret-of-the-stone-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/the-secret-of-the-stone-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret of The Stone Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lovecraftian interlude in the children&#8217;s 80-page graphic novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2L9Ew0J\">The Secret of The Stone Frog<\/a><\/em>, a book in which 7-9 year-old advanced or assisted readers get a very palatable and gentle lead-in to a later sampling of <em>Spirited Away<\/em>, <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, and even H.P. Lovecraft (the end of &#8220;The Festival&#8221;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1.jpg?w=192\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21102\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2.jpg?w=192\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/3.jpg?w=191\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/4.jpg?w=191\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21099\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Secret of The Stone Frog<\/em> was the debut hand-drawn book by David Nytra of Canada, in 2012. I liked the art and layouts but wasn&#8217;t overly keen on the main dialogue lettering, which often seemed too computerised for my taste.  If you&#8217;re going to the trouble of hand-drawing everything, why spoil the effect with digital lettering?  But I guess school library sales are important at this end of the publishing market, and librarians probably assume they need &#8216;lettering clarity&#8217; for ease of reading by their less able patrons. Currently the book is only available in paper. <\/p>\n<p>It would be a fine Christmas stocking filler for intelligent and imaginative 7-9 year olds. If the primary dialogue were to be re-lettered, the whole book colourised in a soft watercolour underlay, and a better cover added, then it would probably sell nicely as a Kindle ebook. <\/p>\n<p>Nytra took the same characters on a similar but fantasy medieval-themed 120-page dreamlands outing in 2015, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Uz2Mh1\">Windmill Dragons<\/a><\/em>, but I haven&#8217;t seen that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lovecraftian interlude in the children&#8217;s 80-page graphic novel The Secret of The Stone Frog, a book in which 7-9 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/the-secret-of-the-stone-frog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}