What I Did at Kirkus Last Week, Featuring Everett Aison
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Could this be the New York he had known in the green of summer?”
Last week here at Kirkus, I wrote in part about Rhoda Levine’s Arthur, illustrated by Everett Aison. Arthur was originally released in 1962 but re-released in October by the New York Review Children’s Collection. I’ve got a bit of art from the book here today.
(I also wrote last week about John Burningham’s Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present. You can see a spread from it in this previous 7-Imp post.)
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The world might make a very good bird, indeed, he reflected.”
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ARTHUR. Copyright © 1962 by Everett Aison and Rhoda Levine. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, New York Review of Books.
This book is just so lovely.