{"id":2301,"date":"2012-03-02T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2012-03-02T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:21:06","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at my <em>Kirkus<\/em> column, I write about Nicola Davies&#8217; <em>Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature<\/em>, illustrated by Mark Hearld. Heavens. It&#8217;s a beautiful book. That link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/writing-and-art-converge-beautifully-outside-your-\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I hope to have art from it next week to share with you here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you missed last week&#8217;s column, I wrote about the BolognaRagazzi Awards. That link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/back-bologna\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any art for my readers this morning, but here&#8217;s what I <em>want<\/em> to do, fingers crossed. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaboxscent.blogspot.com\/\">Cristiana Clerici<\/a><\/strong> and I think it&#8217;d be super neato-skeeto (to put it all professional-like) to post <em>all<\/em> the book covers from the winning titles (and Mentions), along with <em>at least<\/em> one spread from each book. This is not a trivial task, though, given that many of these books are published in other countries, but we are going to try (after I get back in town next week from some more blogging-related travel). <\/p>\n<p>So, we hope to have that for you one day in the near future &#8212; if we have our way, we&#8217;ll be sharing some international illustrations with you. <\/p>\n<p>Until then &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at my Kirkus column, I write about Nicola Davies&#8217; Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, illustrated by Mark Hearld. Heavens. It&#8217;s a beautiful book. That link is here. I hope to have art from it next week to share with you here at 7-Imp. * * * * * * [&hellip;]<\/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-2301","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\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}