{"id":2158,"date":"2011-06-24T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:29:47","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-meg-medina-claudio-munoz-and-nina-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Meg Medina, Claudio Mu\u00f1oz, and Nina Crews"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“T\u00eda Isa wants a car. But T\u00edo Andr\u00e9s laughs when he hears his sister’s plan. ‘Don’t be ridiculous!’ he says. ‘You’re not a rich queen! We walk to everything we need here, Isa. Now, what’s for dinner?’ T\u00eda Isa just whistles as she steps over T\u00edo’s work boots—muddy like ogre shoes—and stirs our black-bean soup.”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

This morning at Kirkus<\/em> I take a look at three new picture books created by folks who migrated from the world of editorial illustration to children’s book illustration — Laura Ljungkvist<\/a><\/strong>, Frank Viva<\/a><\/strong>, and Stephen Savage<\/a><\/strong>. The link is here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. Next Friday, I’ll showcase some art from each book. <\/p>\n

(Also up at this link<\/a><\/strong> this morning is my Kirkus<\/em> Qrank quiz on Villains of Children’s Lit. Now that<\/em> was fun to write. Come on, you know you wanna play. I’ll even throw in a villain laugh for you: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.)<\/p>\n

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Last week’s column<\/a><\/strong> was all about one of Nina Crews’s<\/a><\/strong> newest titles, The Neighborhood Sing-Along<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Greenwillow, May 2011), as well as the picture book debut from Meg Medina<\/a><\/strong>, T\u00eda Isa Wants a Car<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Candlewick, June 2011), illustrated by Claudio Mu\u00f1oz<\/a><\/strong>. Since I can’t write about picture books and NOT show you art (I just worded that sentence in a very complicated manner, didn’t I?), here are some spreads from each book today. <\/p>\n

The spreads from Nina’s book are re-posted from my Tuesday chat with her. It’s here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it and are interested. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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“T\u00eda Isa turns on the car, whose motor cranks with a puff of genie smoke, and then it says, <\/em>Arroz, arroz, arroz, arroz. ‘First things first,’ she says. She pulls out the only thing left in our envelope, which is skinny now like an empty balloon. It’s a picture of our whole family. Me, T\u00eda Isa, and T\u00edo Andr\u00e9s. But also my parents, grandparents, and cousins—<\/em>los padres, abuelos, and<\/em> primos—who are still there, thinking about us from that breezy house by the sea. I hold the picture steady
while she tapes down the corners.”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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“Then T\u00eda Isa leans into the Hula-hoop wheel, and off we go! My ponytail flaps behind me like a rope cut loose. We zoom along Sanford Avenue, past my school and the other buildings, so squat and red. Past a bus full of tired people squeezed close the way I hate, with no room to spin around on the bars inside.
‘T\u00eda Isa bought a car!’ I shout.”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“I’m a Little Teapot” and “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” from
<\/em>The Neighborhood Sing-Along<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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“Do Your Ears Hang Low?” from
<\/em>The Neighborhood Sing-Along<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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TIA ISA WANTS A CAR. Text copyright \u00a9 2011 by Meg Medina. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 by Claudio Mu\u00f1oz. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE NEIGHBORHOOD SING-ALONG. Copyright \u00a9 by 2011 by Nina Crews. Published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. Images used with permission of Ms. Crews.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“T\u00eda Isa wants a car. But T\u00edo Andr\u00e9s laughs when he hears his sister’s plan. ‘Don’t be ridiculous!’ he says. ‘You’re not a rich queen! We walk to everything we need here, Isa. Now, what’s for dinner?’ T\u00eda Isa just whistles as she steps over T\u00edo’s work boots—muddy like ogre shoes—and stirs our black-bean soup.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}