{"id":2329,"date":"2012-04-12T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2012-04-13T05:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T11:40:36","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-morningplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-michael-emberley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus Tomorrow,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Michael Emberley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tomorrow over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ll have some thoughts on A Hen for Izzy Pippik<\/em>, written by Aubrey Davis and illustrated by Marie Lafrance. That link will be here<\/a><\/strong> in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Last Friday, I weighed in on Mary Ann Hoberman’s<\/a><\/strong> Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, illustrated by Michael Emberley<\/a><\/strong>. That column is here<\/a><\/strong>. Pictured above is Emberley’s illustration for Theodore Roethke’s<\/a><\/strong> “Dinky.” Below are some more spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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“Nancy Hanks” by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Ben\u00e9t<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“Mary Middling” by Rose Fyleman<\/a><\/strong>, “A Frog in a Well Explains the World”
by Alice Schertle<\/a><\/strong>, and “Bat Patrol” by Georgia Heard<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread and read poems)<\/center><\/p>\n

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“<\/em>If-ing” by Langston Hughes<\/a><\/strong> and “Things” by Eloise Greenfield<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread and read poems)<\/center><\/p>\n

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FORGET-ME-NOTS: POEMS TO LEARN BY HEART. Copyright 2012 by Mary Ann Hoberman. Illustrations copyright 2012 by Michael Emberley. Spreads reproduced with permission of the publisher, Megan Tingley Books\/Little, Brown and Co., New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow over at Kirkus, I’ll have some thoughts on A Hen for Izzy Pippik, written by Aubrey Davis and illustrated by Marie Lafrance. That link will be here in the morning. * * * Last Friday, I weighed in on Mary Ann Hoberman’s Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart, illustrated by Michael Emberley. That column […]<\/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-2329","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\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}