What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Cindy Derby

h1 May 10th, 2019 by jules


“polka dot polka dot / you are not at all what i thought …”
(Click to enlarge spread and read poem in its entirety)


 

Over at Kirkus today, I write about new picture books from Stephen Savage and Fiona Woodcock.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Shannon Bramer’s Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children (Groundwood, March 2019), illustrated by Cindy Derby. I’m following up here today with a few spreads.

Enjoy!



 


“I’ve got a spider way of thinking …”
(Click to enlarge spread and read poem in its entirety)


 


“The little brown bats / in my attic / sleep all day …”
(Click to enlarge spread and read poem in its entirety)


 


(Click to enlarge cover)


 

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CLIMBING SHADOWS: POEMS FOR CHILDREN. Text copyright © 2019 by Shannon Bramer. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Cindy Derby and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto.





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