{"id":2142,"date":"2011-05-26T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2011-05-27T06:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:31:22","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus This Week
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My 7-impish plans for today were to post an interview with the talented James E. Ransome<\/a><\/strong>, but that will have to be put off till perhaps next week. I look forward to this. I enjoy seeing his illustration work, and—speaking of picture book biographies, which I do below—have you seen Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George<\/a><\/strong><\/em> this year? It was written by Lesa Cline-Ransome<\/a><\/strong>, who happens to be James’s wife, and was illustrated by James. So, next week I shall bring you an interview with Mr. Ransome, whose colorful artwork will wake you right. up. <\/p>\n

Instead, I’m now here today to say that this week at Kirkus<\/em> I’ll cover three new engaging picture book biographies. The link will be here<\/a><\/strong> tomorrow (Friday) morning. And next week at 7-Imp, I’ll showcase some spreads from each picture book. Plus maybe a bit more. We’ll see. I’ve got ideas brewin’ in my head anyway. <\/p>\n

Also over at Kirkus<\/em> tomorrow will be the Qrank quiz I wrote on “Strong Females in Kidlit.” Now, that<\/em> was fun to write. You can take that quiz, if you’re so inclined, tomorrow at this link<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Last week, I covered DK Publishing’s children’s title on world religions, What Do You Believe?<\/em> That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it. Below are some spreads from the book. You can click each to super-size and see up close. (You really have<\/em> to in order to read the text.) <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? Copyright \u00a9 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited. Published by DK Publishing, New York. All images reproduced by permission of the publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 7-impish plans for today were to post an interview with the talented James E. Ransome, but that will have to be put off till perhaps next week. I look forward to this. I enjoy seeing his illustration work, and—speaking of picture book biographies, which I do below—have you seen Before There Was Mozart: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}