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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Kaylani Juanita, Hyeon-Ju Lee, and Zeke Peña

h1 April 26th, 2019 by jules


— From Kyle Lukoff’s When Aidan Became a Brother,
illustrated by Kaylani Juanita


 


— From Isabel Quintero’s My Papi Has a Motorcycle,
illustrated by Zeke Peña


 


— From Hyeon-Ju Lee’s
The Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up


 

Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got the newest picture book from author-illustrator Susan L. Roth.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Hyeon-Ju Lee’s The Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up (Feiwel and Friends, April 2019); Isabel Quintero’s My Papi Has a Motorcycle (Kokila, May 2019), illustrated by Zeke Peña; and Kyle Lukoff’s When Aidan Became a Brother (Lee & Low, May 2019), illustrated by Kaylani Juanita. I’m following up with art from each book today.

Enjoy!



 

From My Papi Has a Motorcycle:


 



 


“My papi, the carpenter, is covered in sawdust and smells like a hard day at work. …”
(Click either image to see closer and to see spread in its entirety)


 


“And then … we take off!”
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)


 


“We become a spectacular celestial thing soaring on asphalt. …”
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)


 


“We roar past murals that tell our history ….”
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)


 


(Click to enlarge cover)


 

From The Happiest Tree:


 


“I moved to this building when I was ten years old.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


“Beautiful sounds from the Rose piano class always filled the ground floor.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


“For the first time ever, I could see myself.
I was happy and excited and full of life.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


“Sometimes, the groundskeeper trimmed my branches.
It was painful but it helped so that I could grow up quickly!”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 



 

From When Aidan Became a Brother:


 


“When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl.
His parents gave him a pretty name.
His room looked like a girl’s room.
And he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 



 


“It was hard to tell his parents what he knew about himself,
but it was even harder not to.”
(Click either image to see closer and to see spread in its entirety)


 


“Aidan knew how to love someone,
and that was the most important part of being a brother.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


(Click to enlarge cover)


 

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THE HAPPIEST TREE: A STORY OF GROWING UP. Copyright © 2016 by Hyeon-Ju Lee. Originally published in Korea in 2016 by DreamingKite Corp. First American edition, 2019. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Feiwel and Friends, New York.

MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE. Copyright © 2019 by Isabel Quintero. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Zeke Peña and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

WHEN AIDAN BECAME A BROTHER. Text copyright © 2019 by Kyle Lukoff. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Kaylani Juanita nd reproduced by permission of the publisher, Lee & Low Books, New York.





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