What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring A. N. Kang and Lindsay Moore

Polar bears are patient beasts, as patient as glaciers.”
— From Lindsay Moore’s Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival
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Anticipating future needs, she gathers acorn seeds.”
— From Beth Ferry’s Squirrel’s Family Tree, illustrated by A. N. Kang
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Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got two new picture books about women breaking the rules.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Lindsay Moore’s Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival (Greenwillow, January 2019), as well as Beth Ferry’s Squirrel’s Family Tree (Orchard/Scholastic, January 2019), illustrated by A. N. Kang. I’m following up today with art from each book.
Enjoy!
to be patient in darkness.”
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and resting. A polar bear knows how to take a good nap.”
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bubble up from darkness in creaks and groans.”
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And those seeds might just germinate if found a bit too late.”
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and something magic has begun as winter’s reign is done.”
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Moss and grass make it the best and softest place to rest.”
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SEA BEAR: A JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL. Copyright © 2019 by Lindsay Moore. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York.
SQUIRREL’S FAMILY TREE. Text copyright © 2019 by Beth Ferry. Illustrations © 2019 by A. N. Kang and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., New York.