{"id":2294,"date":"2012-02-16T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:42:13","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-leuyen-pham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring LeUyen Pham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“A stick is an excellent thing. \/ If you find the perfect one, \/
it’s a scepter for a king. \/A stick is an excellent thing…”
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Early thumbnail for above spread<\/em>
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For this week’s Kirkus<\/em> column, which will be here<\/a><\/strong> tomorrow, I take a look at Maira Kalman’s latest picture book, Looking at Lincoln<\/em>. (You can also head over here<\/a><\/strong> to Jama Rattigan’s side to read about it.)<\/p>\n

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If you missed last week’s column, I wrote about Marilyn Singer’s<\/a><\/strong> latest poetry collection, A Stick Is an Excellent Thing<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, to be released by Clarion at the end of the month and illustrated by LeUyen Pham<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today I feature some spreads and early thumbnails from the book, courtesy of Ms. Pham. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“This bubble I’m blowing, \/ this bubble is growing— \/
this bubble of ginormous size…”
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Spread (without the text) for the “Hide-and-Seek” poem:
“One, two, three, uh-uh, you can’t see me \/ behind this willow tree…”<\/em>
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“Fireflies don’t bother me. \/ Fireflies don’t scare me. \/
They never bite; they just make light. \/ I’ll catch some, if you dare me!”<\/em>
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Early thumbnail for another spread in the book:
“…I’m the boss of the toss \/ so you cannot relax \/
When you play with me, \/ I’m the queen of the jacks.”<\/em>
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Early thumbnail—with an entirely different layout—for another spread in the book:
“Hey, hey, diddle, diddle! \/ There’s no time to twiddle \/
your thumbs or twirl your hair \/ when you’re the Monkey in the Middle.”<\/em>
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Cover and early thumbnail of cover<\/em>
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A STICK IS AN EXCELLENT THING: POEMS CELEBRATING OUTDOOR PLAY. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Marilyn Singer. Illustrations \u00a9 2012 by LeUyen Pham. Published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. All images here used with permission of Ms. Pham.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A stick is an excellent thing. \/ If you find the perfect one, \/it’s a scepter for a king. \/A stick is an excellent thing…”(Click to enlarge spread) Early thumbnail for above spread(Click to enlarge) For this week’s Kirkus column, which will be here tomorrow, I take a look at Maira Kalman’s latest picture book, […]<\/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-2294","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\/2294","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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}