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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Eva Erikkson and Sydney Smith

h1 March 6th, 2015 by jules


— From JonArno Lawson’s Sidewalk Flowers,
illustrated by Sydney Smith


“Dad lifted me up so I’d be closer to the stars that were far, far away. ‘Some of them don’t even exist,’ he said. ‘They’ve gone out already.’ ‘But we can still see them,’ I said. ‘Yes, we can see their light,’ said Dad. ‘It may take several hundred years to arrive here.’ I looked at the stars that weren’t there. And Dad went on telling me their names and carrying me. ‘The Swan,’ he said. ‘The Harp. Big Dog.'”
— From Ulf Stark’s When Dad Showed Me the Universe,
illustrated by Eva Erikkson
(Click to enlarge spread)


 

This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Michael Morpurgo’s Half a Man, illustrated by Gemma O’Callaghan, and J. Patrick Lewis’s The Wren and the Sparrow, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. That link is here.

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Today I’ve got some art from JonArno Lawson’s Sidewalk Flowers, illustrated by Sydney Smith (Groundwood, March 2015), as well as Ulf Stark’s When Dad Showed Me the Universe, illustrated by the great Eva Eriksson (originally released in Sweden in 1998 but coming to American shelves later this year). I wrote about both books here at Kirkus last week and want to share some art today.

Don’t miss Philip Nel’s post on Sidewalk Flowers, and here Roger Sutton talks to Lawson.

Enjoy.


 

Art from Sidewalk Flowers:


 



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(Click to see cover in more detail)


 

Art from
When Dad Showed Me the Universe:


 







 

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SIDEWALK FLOWERS. Copyright © 2015 by JonArno Lawson. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Sydney Smith. Published by Groundwood Books, Toronto. Illustrations here reproduced by permission of the publisher.

WHEN DAD SHOWED ME THE UNIVERSE. English language edition © Gecko Press Ltd 2015. Illustrations here reproduced by permission of the publisher.





3 comments to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Eva Erikkson and Sydney Smith”

  1. Jules, the artwork shown in BOTH these books is beautiful. I really enjoy the books (having gained larger appeal since OLIVIA) with a lot of black and white with spots of color 🙂 Looking forward to reading these. Thanks!

         by :D March 6th, 2015 at 8:38 am

  2. Probably one of the most beautiful picture books I’ve seen today — Sidewalk Flowers. *sobs*

         by tanita March 12th, 2015 at 5:44 pm

  3. […] book, Uncle Holland [April 2017], is another Groundwood Book, written by JonArno Lawson (author of Sidewalk Flowers).     Groundwood sent me the manuscript for this one while I was still working on The […]

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