What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Jacqueline Ayer and Lizi Boyd

— From Jacqueline Ayer’s The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand
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This week over at Kirkus, I’ve got lazy summer (re)reading on the mind.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Jacqueline Ayer’s The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand (Enchanted Lion, June 2017) and Lizi Boyd’s I Wrote You a Note (Chronicle, June 2017).
I’m following up with some art today.
Enjoy!

Eight skinny spider legs all stayed dry. I wrote you a note. Did you find it?”
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Miss Moon said to the stranger as he came closer. …”
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crowded on the little stage.”
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by the familiar smell of the cooking fire. …”
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I WROTE YOU A NOTE. Copyright © 2017 by Lizi Boyd. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
THE PAPER-FLOWER TREE: A TALE FROM THAILAND. Copyright © 1959 by Jacqueline Ayer. First Reprint Edition published in 2017 by Enchanted Lion Books. Illustrations reproduced by their permission.