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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Lorena Alvarez, Ivan Brunetti, and Mordicai Gerstein (and Others!)

April 12th, 2019 by jules

— From Lorena Alvarez’s Hicotea

— From Mordicai Gerstein’s I Am Hermes!

— From Ivan Brunetti’s Comics: Easy as ABC!

At Kirkus today, I’ve got a visually rich new picture book about celebrating family.

That is here.

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Over at Kirkus last week, I wrote here about Lorena Alvarez’s Hicotea: A Nightlights Story (Nobrow, March 2019); Mordicai Gerstein’s I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the Gods (Holiday House, April 2019), and Comics: Easy as ABC!: The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids (April 2019) from TOON Books and Ivan Brunetti (and other comics artists). Today, I’ve got some art from each book.

Enjoy!

From Hicotea:

“Girls, before we leave for the wetland,
I need you to read these guides with your partners.”
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“I’ve been collecting these things for a long time.”
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“We soon found out that the more we explored this place,
the bigger it became.”
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“This place is not yours to understand.”
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“… but you won’t have a place in my world!”
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“This is quite interesting …”
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From I Am Hermes!

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From Comics: Easy as ABC!

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Note: The “Perspective” artwork is from Sergio García Sánchez
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Note: Some art on this page is from Alec Longstreth
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Note: These two images feature art from Art Spiegelman and Eleanor Davis
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COMICS: EASY AS ABC!: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO COMICS FOR KIDS. © 2019 individual contributors & TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior, LLC. Illustrations used by permission of TOON Books, New York.

HICOTEA. © Nobrow 2019. Text and illustrations © Lorena Alvarez 2019. Illustrations used by permission of Nobrow, New York.

I AM HERMES!: MISCHIEF-MAKING MESSENGER OF THE GODS. Copyright © 2019 by Mordicai Gerstein. Illustrations used by permission of Holiday House, New York.

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