{"id":2287,"date":"2012-02-02T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2022-03-07T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:55:13","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringisabelle-arsenault-and-rg-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Isabelle Arsenault and R.G. Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish.
She made wolf sounds and did strange things…”<\/em>
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“…the boo-hoo blues, the you lose blues, the oh no, don’t go, miss you blues…”<\/em>
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\nFor this week’s Kirkus<\/em> column, which will be here<\/a><\/strong> tomorrow morning, I take a look at Kevin Henkes’ upcoming book, Penny and Her Song<\/em>, which is Henkes’ debut as a beginning-reader author\/illustrator. <\/p>\n

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If you missed last week’s column<\/a><\/strong>, I featured the beautiful picture book Virginia Wolf<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (to be released in March from Kids Can Press), written by Kyo Maclear<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Canadian Isabelle Arsenault<\/a><\/strong>. Long-time 7-Imp readers may remember this 2008 feature<\/a><\/strong> on Arsenault. How much do I love her artwork? If I counted the ways, we’d be here all week. <\/p>\n

This morning, Arsenault shares some images and early studies from Virginia Wolf<\/em>, and I thank her so much. I’m also featuring some illustrations from R. G. Roth<\/a><\/strong> from Everybody Gets the Blues<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Harcourt, January 2012), written by author and illustrator Leslie Staub, a book I mentioned in last week’s column as well. Roth’s illustrations were hand-drawn, combined with collage, and then designed in Photoshop. <\/p>\n

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Early sketches<\/em>
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Dust jacket<\/em>
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“The whole house sank. Up became down. Bright became dim. Glad became gloom.”<\/em>
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“I did my best to cheer her up. I offered her treats. She wolfed them all down. But it made no difference. Nothing pleased her. Not the cat. Not my violin. Not even making faces at our brother Thoby. She pulled up her covers and said, ‘LEAVE ME ALONE.’ Then she said nothing. To anybody.”<\/em>
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“I made a garden. I painted trees and strange candy blossoms and green shoots and frosted cakes. I painted leaves that said <\/em>hush in the wind and fruit that squeaked, and slowly I created a place called Bloomsberry. I made it look just the way it sounded.”<\/em>
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Closing spread<\/em>
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“Sometimes I’m hapy under the great blue sky….”<\/em>
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“Everybody gets the blues sometimes: moms and dads, dogs and cats,
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VIRGINIA WOLF. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Kyo Maclear. Illustrations \u00a9 2012 by Isabelle Arsenault. Published by Kids Can Press, Tonawanda, NY. All images reproduced by permission of Isabelle Arsenault.<\/em><\/p>\n

EVERYBODY GETS THE BLUES. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Leslie Staub. Illustrations \u00a9 2012 by R. G. Roth. Published by Harcourt, New York. All images reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish.She made wolf sounds and did strange things…”(Click to enlarge and see full spread,which includes Isabelle Arsenault’s hand-lettered text)   “…the boo-hoo blues, the you lose blues, the oh no, don’t go, miss you blues…”(Click to enlarge spread)   For this week’s Kirkus column, which will be […]<\/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-2287","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\/2287","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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}