What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Renato Moriconi and Heidi Smith
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— From Kate Gardner’s Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth,
illustrated by Heidi Smith
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Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got babies on the mind.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Renato Moriconi’s The Little Barbarian (Eerdmans, August 2018) and Kate Gardner’s Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth (Balzer + Bray, September 2018), illustrated by Heidi Smith. I’m following up with a bit of art from each book today.
Enjoy!
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The Surprising Truth
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THE LITTLE BARBARIAN. Text and illustrations © Renato Moriconi. English-language edition © 2018 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. lllustrations reproduced by permission of Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
LOVELY BEASTS: THE SURPRISING TRUTH. Text copyright © 2018 by Katherine Gardner. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Heidi Smith. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York.