What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Sebastian Meschenmoser and Matt Phelan


Over at Kirkus today, I write about two new picture books, one about true love and the other, about turtle towns. Yep, turtle towns.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Matt Phelan’s Pignic (Greenwillow, March 2018) and Sebastian Meschenmoser’s It’s Springtime, Mr. Squirrel! (NorthSouth, February 2018). I’m following up with some art today, and Matt even sent along some preliminary artwork.
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and I tried to bring that same approach to the final illustrations.”
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IT’S SPRINGTIME, MR. SQUIRREL! Copyright © 2018 by Esslinger in Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag. English translation copyright © 2018 by NorthSouth Books, Inc. Illustrations reproduced by permission of NorthSouth Books.
PIGNIC. Copyright © 2018 by Matt Phelan. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow Books, New York. Preliminary images reproduced by permission of Matt Phelan.