What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Ashley Crowley and Lucy Ruth Cummins

h1 February 23rd, 2018 by jules


“‘On the night of the blue moon, anything can happen,’ said the boy.”
— From Sara O’Leary’s
The Boy and the Blue Moon,
illustrated by Ashley Crowley


 


“This is not a valentine, since it’s got sharper edges than dainty old lace.”
— From Carter Higgins’
This Is Not a Valentine, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins
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Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got some brand-new board books.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about some picture book valentines. I’m following up with art today from Carter Higgins’ This Is Not a Valentine (Chronicle, December 2017), illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins, and Sara O’Leary’s The Boy and the Blue Moon (Godwin Books/Henry Holt, February 2018), illustrated by Ashley Crowley.

Enjoy!



 

From The Boy and the Blue Moon:


 


“On the night of the blue moon, a boy and his cat went for a walk. Inside their house the light was warm and yellow, but outside it was blue and magical.”
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“‘On the night of the blue moon,
anything can happen,’ said the boy.”

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“A lake appeared where there’d never been a lake before. It was deep and blue, a very deep, deep blue. The waves made a little lapping sound on the shore that was somehow part of the same song they boy had been hearing since he’d left the house.”
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From This Is Not a Valentine:


 


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“This is not a valentine, since those come with buckets of roses and bushels of tulips that smell like grannies fresh out of the garden.”
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“This is not a valentine,
since sugared hearts and suckers give you cavities and bellyaches.”

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THE BOY AND THE BLUE MOON. Text copyright © 2018 by Sara O’Leary. Illustrations © 2018 by Ashley Crowley and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Godwin Books/Henry Holt, New York.

THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE. Copyright © 2017 by Carter Higgins. Illustrations © 2017 by Lucy Ruth Cummins and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.





One comment to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Ashley Crowley and Lucy Ruth Cummins”

  1. Hello, blue moon! Hello, cat! 🙂


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