What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Rebecca Cobb and Nadine Kaadan
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— From Nicola Davies’s The Day War Came,
illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
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it was completely empty. Everything was different. …”
— From Nadine Kaadan’s Tomorrow
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Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got three new picture books about knocking down walls.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Nadine Kaadan’s Tomorrow (Lantana, September 2018) and Nicola Davies’s The Day War Came (Candlewick, September 2018), illustrated by Rebecca Cobb.
I’ve art from each book today. Enjoy!
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then all smoke and fire and noise that I didn’t understand.”
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rode on the back of trucks, in buses; went on a boat that leaked and almost sank;
then up a beach where shoes lay empty in the sand.”
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with the volume turned up loud … SO LOUD!”
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‘I want to go to the park NOWWWWWWWWW!!”
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He took his hand and they walked home together.”
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THE DAY WAR CAME. Text copyright © 2018 by Nicola Davies. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Rebecca Cobb and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.
TOMORROW. Text, Illustration & Translation © Nadine Kaadan 2018. American edition published in 2018 by Lantana Publishing Ltd., UK. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Lantana.