{"id":2208,"date":"2011-09-23T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2011-09-23T06:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T12:05:53","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-ole-konnecke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Ole K\u00f6nnecke"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Kirkus<\/em> this morning, I weigh in on Toys Come Home<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade, September 2011), the third set of stories about Stingray, Plastic, and Lumphy, written by Emily Jenkins<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky<\/a><\/strong>. The link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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If you missed last week’s column<\/a><\/strong>, I discussed a picture book so funny that I’ve been evangelizing it with nearly every kid I see lately. Seriously, I’ve been reading a lot at my daughters’ school (read to the kindergartner’s class, read to the second grader’s class, and read to first graders in the library), and I’ve taken this book every time. Each age group has responded so positively to it. Meaning, they laugh very loudly (as do I), since this one is so cleverly done and so. very. funny. The book is Anton Can Do Magic<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, an international import from Gecko Press, originally published as Anton kann zaubern<\/em> in Germany in 2006 and translated for this first American edition by Catherine Chidgey. It was written and illustrated by Ole K\u00f6nnecke<\/a><\/strong>. Since it’s about magic, I like to whip out my magic nickel after reading it to kids, though I can never quite get that trick right. (I’m supposed to make the nickel disappear, you see, but I keep accidentally shrinking it, and who<\/em> is gonna take a tiny nickel as currency, I ask you?)<\/p>\n

Here are some illustrations from this wonderful picture book. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“Anton wants to do some magic. He wants to make something disappear. A tree.”<\/em>
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ANTON CAN DO MAGIC. Original title: ANTON KANN ZAUBERN. Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Ole K\u00f6nnecke. First American edition published in 2011, Gecko Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Kirkus this morning, I weigh in on Toys Come Home (Schwartz & Wade, September 2011), the third set of stories about Stingray, Plastic, and Lumphy, written by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. The link is here. * * * * * * * If you missed last week’s column, I discussed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","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=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}