{"id":2274,"date":"2012-01-06T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:24:25","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-vicky-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2274","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Vicky White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9780763649098.int.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9780763649098.int.1a.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Tigers are big and they&#8217;re beautiful and they&#8217;re fierce.<br \/>And all this makes life difficult for them these days&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click image to see entire spread with text)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This week at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I take a look at 2012 picture book titles I&#8217;m particularly eager to see. The link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/2012-preview-picture-books\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you missed last week&#8217;s column, I wrote about Martin Jenkins\u2019 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780763649098\">Can We Save the Tiger?<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u2014 illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wandsprints.com\/blogcategory\/vicky-white\/\">Vicky White<\/a><\/strong> and published by Candlewick in February of last year. Beautiful book in every way. That link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/one-more-cant-miss-picture-book-2011\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and above is a spread from the book. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/0225 review Can We Save the Tiger Martin Jenkins1.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>Until next time &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>CAN WE SAVE THE TIGER?. Text copyright \u00a9 2011 by Martin Jenkins. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2011 by Vicky White. 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;Tigers are big and they&#8217;re beautiful and they&#8217;re fierce.And all this makes life difficult for them these days&#8230;&#8221;(Click image to see entire spread with text) This week at Kirkus, I take a look at 2012 picture book titles I&#8217;m particularly eager to see. The link is here this morning. * * * * * * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","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=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}