What I’m Up To at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Geneviève Côté and David A. Johnson
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I scrunch myself down and pretend I’m not there. When everyone’s watching, I hide.”
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Today over at Kirkus, I write about why I’m reading a lot of picture books this summer. (Well, more than I normally do.) That link is here.
Last week, I wrote about two shy children in two new picture books, Heather Hartt-Sussman’s Noni Is Nervous (Tundra Books, to be released in July), illustrated by Geneviève Côté (who visited 7-Imp back in 2011), as well as Eileen Spinelli’s When No One Is Watching (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, February 2013), illustrated by David A. Johnson.
Today, I have art from both books, as well as some sketches from Geneviève. David also shares some images (very bottom of the post) from a recent project, called King John. (I believe it’s from A.A. Milne’s “King John’s Christmas.”)
Enjoy.
Abigail and Kasey, Xavier and Brooke.”
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NONI IS NERVOUS. Text copyright © 2013 by Heather Hartt-Sussman. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Geneviève Côté. Published by Tundra Books, Toronto. Art and sketches reproduced by permission of Geneviève Côté.
WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING. Text copyright © 2013 by Eileen Spinelli. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by David A. Johnson. Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Michigan. Art reproduced by permission of David A. Johnson.
Cool. Interesting books, both of them. Thanks.
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