What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Leo & Diane Dillon and Liniers
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Today over at Kirkus, I write about a new collaboration from J. Patrick Lewis and Gary Kelley, Harlem Hellfighters.
That is here.
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 …
Before There Is Anything There
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and everybody would be welcome.
We’d take care of the most important things.”
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Kids who had extra food would help bring it to people who needed it.”
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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.
I love the Dillons!!! 🙂
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.
Oh, wow. Thanks, Kerry. I’ve never heard that phrase. I’ll go read about it.