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Last Week, Featuring Jon Agee, Mark Pett, and Sualzo

h1 November 2nd, 2018 by jules


— From Travis Jonker’s The Very Last Castle,
illustrated by Mark Pett


 


“How does he stay so silent?”
— From Silvia Vecchini’s Phone Call with a Fish,
illustrated by Sualzo


 


“Wait a second. What’s going on?!”
— From Jon Agee’s The Wall in the Middle of the Book
(Click to enlarge spread)


 

Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got three new children’s books about when grown-ups mess up.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Jon Agee’s The Wall in the Middle of the Book (Dial, October 2018); Travis Jonker’s The Very Last Castle (Abrams, October 2018), illustrated by Mark Pett; and the Italian import Phone Call with a Fish (Eerdmans, September 2018), written by Silvia Vecchini and illustrated by Sualzo.

Today here at 7-Imp, I’ve art from each book.

Enjoy!



 

From The Wall in the Middle of the Book:


 


“And it’s a good thing.”
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“… from the other side of the book.”
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“That’s why I’m glad there’s a wall in the middle of the book,
and that I’m on the other side of it.”
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From Phone Call with a Fish:


 



“The boy sitting at the desk near the window doesn’t speak. …”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety and read the full text)


 



“… If you try to talk to him, he’ll just look at your for a moment.”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety and read the full text)


 



“Today at school I made a drawing of a fish talking on the phone. …”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety and read the full text)


 



 

From The Very Last Castle:


 


“Since no one had been inside the castle,
the townspeople had ideas about who — or what — was in there. …”
(Click to enlarge and read the full text)


 


“Everyone told Ibb to stay away. …”
(Click to enlarge and read the full text)


 



(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



 

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PHONE CALL WITH A FISH. Text copyright © 2017 Silvia Vecchini. Illustrations © 2017 Sualzo. Originally published in Italy in 2017 under the title TELEFONATA CON IL PESCE by Topipittori. First published in the United States in 2018 by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Eerdmans.

THE VERY LAST CASTLE. Text copyright © 2018 by Travis Jonker. Illustrations © 2018 by Mark Pett and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York.

THE WALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK. Copyright © 2018 by Jon Agee. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York.





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