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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Piotr Parda and Rafael Yockteng

h1 March 10th, 2017 by jules


“Keep me company on the way home.”
— From Jairo Buitrago’s Walk With Me, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng
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— From Piotr Parda’s Graduation Day
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Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got a wee picture book round-up. That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about two books that reflect children living in poverty — Jairo Buitrago’s Walk With Me, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng (Groundwood, March 2017), and Piotr Parda’s Graduation Day (Ripple Grove, March 2017). I’m following up with some spreads from each book today.

Until Sunday …



 

From Graduation Day:


 


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From Walk With Me:


 


“… then wait for me.”
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“Eat with us …”
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GRADUATION DAY. Text and illustrations copyright © 2017 by Piotr Parda. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Ripple Grove Press, Portland, OR.

WALK WITH ME. Copyright © 2008 by Fondo de Cultura Económica. English translation copyright © 2017 by Elisa Amado. First published in English in Canada and the USA in 2017 by Groundwood Books. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.





One comment to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Piotr Parda and Rafael Yockteng”

  1. That lion! Must look for these books. Thanks, Jules! Such an underrepresented topic.

         by Laura Purdie Salas March 10th, 2017 at 4:10 pm

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