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This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I shine the spotlight on Steven Withrow’s<\/a><\/strong> worthy new venture, Poetry Advocates for Children & Young Adults<\/a><\/strong>, or PACYA. My Q&A with Withrow about PACYA is here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week I’ll have a bit more with Steven, too (here at 7-Imp).<\/p>\n In last week’s column<\/a><\/strong>, I wrote about Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s<\/a><\/strong> beautiful new picture book, Naamah and the Ark at Night<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (pictured above), an August Candlewick release, illustrated with watercolor collages by Holly Meade<\/a><\/strong>. Here are some spreads below, followed by spreads from another of Holly’s titles this year (April 2011, also from Candlewick), one she both wrote and illustrated, called If I Never Forever Endeavor<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n The latter title, as Holly explained in her 2009 visit to 7-Imp<\/a><\/strong>, is “a story about a small bird and his internal dabate over whether to attempt that first flight from his safe nest \u2014 or not.” Those collage illustrations were rendered in watercolors and linoleum block printing.<\/p>\n Enjoy the art . . . <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Over at the Horn Book’s<\/em> Calling Caldecott<\/em><\/strong><\/a> this week (you are<\/em> reading that, right?), don’t miss the discussion<\/a><\/strong> about Naamah<\/em>. <\/p>\n NAAMAH AND THE ARK AT NIGHT. Text copyright \u00a9 2011 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2011 by Holly Meade. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n IF I NEVER FOREVER ENDEAVOR. Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Holly Meade. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “As restless animals prowl at night, \/ As they pace and roar and growl at night…”(Click to enlarge) This morning over at Kirkus, I shine the spotlight on Steven Withrow’s worthy new venture, Poetry Advocates for Children & Young Adults, or PACYA. My Q&A with Withrow about PACYA is here, and next week I’ll have […]<\/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-2229","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\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
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