What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Carolyn Fisher and Clotilde Perrin
February 7th, 2014 by jules
“At the same moment, in Paris, France, it is seven o’clock in the morning, and Benedict drinks hot chocolate before school. At the same moment, in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is eight o’clock in the morning when Mitko chases after the school bus.”
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“Weeds send their seeds into the world in wondrous ways:
fluffing up like feathers and floating away on the wind.”
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This morning at Kirkus, I write about a quiet, little picture book by Natalie Russell, who lives and works in Scotland, called Lost for Words (Peachtree, March 2014). That link is here.
Last week, I wrote about Cindy Jenson-Elliott’s Weeds Find a Way (Beach Lane Books, February 2014), illustrated by Carolyn Fisher, and Clotilde Perrin’s At the Same Moment Around the World (Chronicle Books, March 2014), first published in France in 2011. That link is here, and today I follow up with some art from each book.
Enjoy.
in Shanghai, China, it is two o’clock in the afternoon, and Chen practices
for the Lunar New Year parade.”
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it is ten o’clock at night when Sharon and Peter kiss good bye.”
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poking into pants and paws like tiny needles …”
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the whole family along!”
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AT THE SAME MOMENT AROUND THE WORLD. Text copyright © 2011 by Clotilde Perrin. First published in the U.S. in 2014 by Chronicle Books. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
WEEDS FIND A WAY. Text copyright © 2014 by Cindy Jenson-Elliott. Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Carolyn Fisher. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Beach Lane Books, New York.
I love making wishes on dandelions.
I wonder if I can get some sort of agreement with Beach Lane Books where they just send me all their books. (I’m thinking I want the same deal with Enchanted Lion too.)