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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Leo & Diane Dillon and Liniers

h1 August 15th, 2014 by jules



 

Today over at Kirkus, I write about a new collaboration from J. Patrick Lewis and Gary Kelley, Harlem Hellfighters.

That is here.

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Last week, I chatted (here) with Diane Dillon, and I also wrote (here) about Liniers’ What There Is Before There Is Anything There (Groundwood, September 2014).

Today I have art from that book (pictured right), as well as the last book Diane and Leo Dillon did together (pictured above), If Kids Ran the World (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, August 2014).

Enjoy …


 

Art from What There Is
Before There Is Anything There


 



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Art from If Kids Ran the World
(without text)


 


“Maybe we’d run the world in a big tree house,
and everybody would be welcome.
We’d take care of the most important things.”
(Click to enlarge)


 


“We know people are hungry, so all over the world, everyone would have enough to eat. The food would taste delicious, and it would make people healthy and strong.
Kids who had extra food would help bring it to people who needed it.”
(Click to enlarge)


 


“And that’s why, if kids ran the world,
we’d make it a wonderful place for everyone to live.”
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WHAT THERE IS BEFORE THERE IS ANYTHING THERE. Text and illustrations copyright © 2006 by Liniers. First published in English in 2014 by Groundwood Books. English translation copyright © 2014 by Elisa Amado. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.

Illustrations from IF KIDS RAN THE WORLD © 2014 by Leo & Diane Dillon. Used with permission from The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic.





3 comments to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Leo & Diane Dillon and Liniers”

  1. I love the Dillons!!! 🙂

         by Betsy August 15th, 2014 at 2:57 pm

  2. I read your review, and wanted to let you know that what you described was sleep paralysis. I have it too and only found out the name as an adult.

         by Kerry August 24th, 2014 at 9:49 pm

  3. Oh, wow. Thanks, Kerry. I’ve never heard that phrase. I’ll go read about it.

         by jules August 25th, 2014 at 7:55 pm

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