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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Cátia Chien and Olivier Tallec

h1 April 20th, 2018 by jules


 


— From Thomas Scotto’s Jerome By Heart,
illustrated by Olivier Tallec


 


“Turtle dreamed about a better home.
So he decided to make some renovations to his shell.”
— From Michelle Cuevas’s The Town of Turtle, illustrated by Cátia Chien
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This morning at Kirkus, I’ve got a Belgian import.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Thomas Scotto’s Jerome By Heart (Enchanted Lion, April 2018), illustrated by Olivier Tallec, as well as Michelle Cuevas’s The Town of Turtle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2018), illustrated by Cátia Chien. I’m following up today with art from each book.

Enjoy!



 

From The Town of Turtle:


 


“After all that work, Turtle needed to take a long nap. He happened to be an especially deep sleeper. When Turtle slept, he slept the sleep of a broken pocket watch.
He dreamed he had friends who lived in the town he had built.”
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“The wind moved into the trees,
laughter moved into the houses, and light moved into the dark.”
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From Jerome By Heart:


 


“I’ve made up my mind. From now one, every day is for Jerome. Mornings are happy from the start! By lunch, we’ve laughed so hard our stomachs hurt. And by dinner,
I’ve stocked up enough of Jerome to last me the whole night. That’s important.”
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“This morning at breakfast, I burst out: ‘I had the best dream last night! It was good in a Jerome kind of way.’ Dad stares at his shoelaces, like he doesn’t hear a word I’m saying. Mom digs through my backpack and sighs, ‘Eat your cereal, Raphael.'”
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“I ransack my room because Jerome says he’ll go on vacation with me!
Maybe even to the highest peak of the Himalayas. Anytime.
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JEROME BY HEART. Text and illustrations copyright © 2009 by Actes Sud. Copyright © 2018 for the English-language translation by Enchanted Lion Books. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Enchanted Lion Books, New York.

THE TOWN OF TURTLE. Text copyright © 2018 by Michelle Cuevas. Illustrations © 2018 by Cátia Chien. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.





One comment to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Cátia Chien and Olivier Tallec”

  1. I just caught up reading your Kirkus piece on Jerome. It’s really so cute – whether its friendship or a very first relationship. The parents going, “Uh-huh,” or getting tired of hearing about it is pretty real – as are the adults who get actually upset, as if childhood’s joys and pains aren’t somewhat transitory, and that there will be many other relationships along the way. Jerome is wisely over adults. ☺

         by tanita April 20th, 2018 at 10:59 am

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