{"id":2290,"date":"2012-02-09T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:21:42","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-kevin-henkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Kevin Henkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Penny 32a.JPG\" style=\"float:right;\" title=\"'And they were right. Penny remembered her song. Beautifully.'\" alt=\"'And they were right. Penny remembered her song. Beautifully.'\">I&#8217;m getting ready to head out of town for a bit, but I can&#8217;t leave my 7-Imp readers hanging. This means that today I&#8217;ve got a bit of art for you; tomorrow, my <em>Kirkus<\/em> column will be up (over in <em>Kirkus<\/em>-land, of course); and Sunday, I&#8217;ll have the kicks post up, even though I won&#8217;t be around to respond. (How could I leave my kickers hanging? I&#8217;ve not <em>once<\/em> done that! Only wild aliens will keep me from posting on Sundays, I tell you.) <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I shine the spotlight on Marilyn Singer&#8217;s upcoming picture book poetry collection, <em>A Stick is an Excellent Thing<\/em>, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. That link will be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/get-moving-singer-and-pham\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> first thing in the morning. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I discussed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinhenkes.com\/\">Kevin Henkes&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> upcoming book, which is actually his debut as a beginning-reader author\/illustrator. It&#8217;s called <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062081957\">Penny and Her Song<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and will be released by Greenwillow at the end of February. That column is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/pennys-tale-sings\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it. Pictured here today are three interior illustrations from the book. Enjoy &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Penny 12a.JPG\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Penny made faces at herself in the mirror.&#8221;<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/24penny.JPG\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Then they did a little show. Mama wore funny sunglasses. Papa wore a silly hat. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Pennycover.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>PENNY AND HER SONG. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Kevin Henkes. Images reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to head out of town for a bit, but I can&#8217;t leave my 7-Imp readers hanging. This means that today I&#8217;ve got a bit of art for you; tomorrow, my Kirkus column will be up (over in Kirkus-land, of course); and Sunday, I&#8217;ll have the kicks post up, even though I won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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-2290","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\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}