What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Amer Khan, Sameer Kulavoor, James Kwan,
Hakeem Nawaz, and Stephen Savage
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— From Anjum Rana’s This Truck has Got to be Special,
illustrated by Hakeem Nawaz and Amer Khan
with illustration design by Sameer Kulavoor
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— From James Kwan’s How It Feels to Be a Boat
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Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got building bridges on the mind.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about James Kwan’s How It Feels to Be a Boat (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2017); Stephen Savage’s Little Plane Learns to Write (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, June 2017); and Anjum Rana’s This Truck has Got to be Special, illustrated by Hakeem Nawaz and Amer Khan (Tara, July 2017) — with illustration design by Sameer Kulavoor.
I’m following up with art today.
Enjoy.
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and must make sure that Zarrar remembers to do that. …”
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(sans text):
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but sometimes they fight.”
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HOW IT FEELS TO BE A BOAT. Copyright © 2017 by James Kwan. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.
LITTLE PLANE LEARNS TO WRITE. Copyright © 2017 by Stephen Savage. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press, New York.
THIS TRUCK HAS GOT TO BE SPECIAL. Copyright © 2016 Tara Books Pvt. Ltd. For the text: Anjum Rana. For the illustration design: Sameer Kulavoor. For the truck art: Hakeem Nawaz, Amer Khan. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.