{"id":2241,"date":"2011-11-18T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2011-11-18T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:31:41","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-zhu-cheng-liang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Zhu Cheng-Liang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/newyearsreunioncutting.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center>&#8220;<font size=3>Pop, pop, pop, bang, bang, bang!<\/font><br \/><em>We hear firecrackers outside all night. I lie between Papa and Mama and fall asleep, drowsily hearing them whispering, whispering. . . .&#8221;<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I offer my thoughts on why I think 2011 has been a good year to ponder picture books. That link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/2011-great-year-picture-books\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>For last week&#8217;s column, I wrote about Yu Li-Qiong\u2019s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780763658816\">A New Year\u2019s Reunion<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang (to be released in December by Candlewick). That link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/happy-reunion\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it. <\/p>\n<p>Opening this post is an illustration from the book, and here are some more below. Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/nyrspreadbig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/nyreunionnewsmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/newyearsreunioncuttingfullspread.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/newyearsreunioncutting2.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Later, it&#8217;s time to make sticky rice balls. Papa buries a coin in one of the balls and says, &#8216;Whoever finds the ball with the coin will have good luck.'&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to see entire spread from which this illustration comes.)<\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/nyrcover.JPG\" border=1><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>A NEW YEAR&#8217;S REUNION. Text copyright \u00a9 2007 by Yu Li-Qiong. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2007 by Zhu Cheng-Liang. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pop, pop, pop, bang, bang, bang!We hear firecrackers outside all night. I lie between Papa and Mama and fall asleep, drowsily hearing them whispering, whispering. . . .&#8221; This morning over at Kirkus, I offer my thoughts on why I think 2011 has been a good year to ponder picture books. That link is here. [&hellip;]<\/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-2241","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\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}