What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Silvia Borando and Ingrid Fiksdahl King

or the stem of a flower?
THERE ARE A HUNDRED THINGS YOU COULD MAKE OF ME”
— From Ann Rand’s and Ingrid Fiksdahl King’s What Can I Be?
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This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Adam Rex’s newest picture book, School’s First Day of School (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, June 2016), illustrated by Christian Robinson. So good, this one. That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Silvia Borando’s Near, Far (Candlewick, June 2016) and Ann Rand’s What Can I Be? (Princeton Architectural Press, May 2016), illustrated by Ingrid Fiksdahl King. Today, I’ve got a bit of art from each book here at 7-Imp.
Enjoy!




WHAT CAN I BE?”
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or a lollipop”
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I’M ROUND I’M RED WHAT CAN YOU MAKE OF ME?”
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OR THICK”
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the mast of a ship”
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What is there that you can make of me?”
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or window panes that look onto the sky?
NOW YOU TRY … WHAT ELSE CAN I BE?”
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NEAR, FAR. Copyright © 2013 by minibombo. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.
WHAT CAN I BE? Copyright © 2016 Ann Rand Ozbekhan. Illustrations © 2016 Ingrid Fiksdahl King. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.