{"id":2297,"date":"2012-02-23T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2012-03-21T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:15:18","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-maira-kalman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Maira Kalman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“One day, while walking through the park on my way to breakfast I saw a very tall man. He reminded me of someone, but I could not think who.”<\/em>
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Hi, dear 7-Imp’ers. I’m starin’ down some manuscript edits this week. How are you all? Once this round of manuscript edits is done, I hope to post a bit more on a weekly basis here in the land of 7-Imp. <\/p>\n

But for now … <\/p>\n

Tomorrow morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I give a brief run-down of the BolognaRagazzi Awards, since the 2012 winners were announced just this week. But I also step back to describe what in the hubba-what the Bologna Children’s Book Fair<\/a><\/strong> is all about (as well as the four categories in the Ragazzi Awards), since I realize that to even the most hard-core children’s lit aficionado in this country, it might be a bit of a mystery. <\/p>\n

For those interested in seeing the 2012 winners, they are as follows (note three American titles make Mentions this year in two different categories!) —<\/p>\n