What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Eugene Yelchin and Hyewon Yum
June 8th, 2018 by jules
Over at Kirkus today, I may ramble a bit about reading.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Eugene Yelchin’s Pip & Pup (Henry Holt, April 2018) and Hyewon Yum’s Saturday Is a Swimming Day (Candlewick, June 2018). I’ve got art from each book below.
I also wrote about Chris Raschka’s New Shoes, and I hope to have some art from that soon here at 7-Imp. Stay tuned. …
and she said she would hold me so I could practice ice-cream scoops like the other kids.”
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PIP & PUP. Copyright © 2018 by Eugene Yelchin. Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Eugene Yelchin.
SATURDAY IS SWIMMING DAY. Copyright © 2018 by Hyewon Yum. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press.
Thanks for the great review!!
SATURDAY IS A SWIMMING DAY is just my cuppa tea – and was also ME when I was a kid. All that anxiety just finally melting into this great joy at being in the water… and then never wanting to get out. The illustrations are lovely.