{"id":2204,"date":"2011-09-16T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:09:32","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-rosalyn-schanzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Rosalyn Schanzer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week at Kirkus<\/em>, I’m discussing one of the funniest picture books I’ve seen all year, a German import from Gecko Press, titled Anton Can Do Magic<\/em>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n

If you missed last week’s column, I conducted a short Q & A with illustrator Amy June Bates<\/a><\/strong>, the Chair of the jury for the Society of Illustrator’s<\/a><\/strong> 2011 Original Art<\/a><\/strong> award. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. In October, closer to the opening of the Original Art exhibit, I’ll have an interview here at 7-Imp with Rosalyn Schanzer<\/a><\/strong>, who won the Gold this year for her book Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (National Geographic, September 2011). But for now, I open this post with one of the many illustrations she sent me for the interview, one moment from the book. (It’s imp-tastic, isn’t it?)<\/p>\n

Here is a group shot of us jury members after a long (but wonderful) day of looking at over 500 picture books.<\/p>\n


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Front row, from left to right: Hyewon Yum<\/a><\/strong>, me, Sophie Blackall<\/a><\/strong>, Cecilia Yung<\/a><\/strong>, Erin Stead<\/a><\/strong>; Back row: Scott Gustafson<\/a><\/strong>, Amy June Bates<\/a><\/strong>, Sean Qualls<\/a><\/strong>, John Bemelmans Marciano<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Illustration copyright \u00a9 2011 by Rosalyn Schanzer and used with permission. <\/p>\n

Photo of 2011 Original Art jury by Laurent Linn<\/a><\/strong> and used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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