What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Yasmeen Ismail and Qin Leng

— From Yasmeen Ismail’s I’m a Girl!
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— From Sara O’Leary’s A Family Is a Family Is a Family, illustrated by Qin Leng
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Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got two new picture books that play with shape, line, color, and space in smart ways. That link is here.
Last week, since I wrote here about Yasmeen Ismail’s I’m a Girl! (Bloomsbury, June 2016) and Sara O’Leary’s A Family Is a Family Is a Family (Groundwood, September 2016), illustrated by Qin Leng, I’m following up with art from each book today.
Enjoy!

My family is not like everybody else’s.”
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A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY. Copyright © 2016 by Sara O’Leary. Illustrations © 2016 by Qin Leng. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Canada.
I’M A GIRL! Copyright © 2015 by Yasmeen Ismail. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury, New York.