{"id":11481,"date":"2020-07-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:33:04","slug":"stepping-stones-from-city-to-farm-life-graphic-novel-by-lucy-knisley-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11481","title":{"rendered":"STEPPING STONES, from city to farm life – graphic novel by Lucy Knisley (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From bustling city to quiet farm,
from only child to a trio of girls,
chores, chickens, snakes? (please, no snakes!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jen’s mom and her boyfriend are the ones who dreamed of living on a farm and selling their produce at the summer market, not Jen who would rather spend summer with Dad (who’s too busy in the city to talk on the phone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pre-teen gets flustered trying to make change at their market stand, is annoyed with chicken-keeping chores<\/a> (twice. every. day), enjoys time alone in the hayloft to sketch, read comics, and play with the barn kitties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Walter’s daughters come to Peapod Farm for the summer – younger Reese is okay, but same-age Andy is a smartypants, pointing out Jen’s problems with math and changing things at their market stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Mom and Walter make Peapod Farm a success?
How can Jen’s sketching talent compete with Andy’s intelligence and Reese’s utter cuteness?
Will the nearly-sisters ever get along<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jen’s summer on the farm begins getting better, one step at a time, in this graphic novel sprouting from Knisley’s own experiences growing up. Find this first book in the Peapod Farm series at your local public library<\/a> or indie bookstore.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What “oh no!” experience turned into “okay” for you?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm, book 1) \/ Lucy Knisley; colored by Whitney Cogar. RH Graphic, 2020. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Personal collection; cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From bustling city to quiet farm, from only child to a trio of girls, chores, chickens, snakes? (please, no snakes!) Jen’s mom and her boyfriend are the ones who dreamed of living on a farm and selling their produce at the summer market, not Jen who would rather spend summer with Dad (who’s too busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,80],"tags":[90,124,22,4,92,11,20,5,16,87,18,40,43,49,184,85,186,132,15,21,66,57,268,73,6,53,8],"class_list":["post-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","tag-abandonment","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-canada","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-nature","tag-new-york","tag-personal-finance","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-sisters","tag-stepfamily","tag-summer","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}