{"id":2357,"date":"2012-05-25T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2012-05-25T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:30:23","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-todayplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-annette-fienieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> Today,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Annette Fienieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Some people came more often, like the goatherd who was jeered and laughed at by the village children. He came by very often. Just like the shell girl who stopped talking one day. And the old lady with a baby carriage and the doll she bottle-fed. And the man who always argued with the voices in his head.
And the lonely boy who actually was a girl.”<\/em>
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Today over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about a pair of brand-new, bilingual board books from Belle Yang that are presented in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The link is here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n

Last week, I wrote about The Man in the Clouds<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, originally released in 2010 in the Netherlands and released here in the States this April, from author and songwriter Koos Meinderts<\/a><\/strong> and renowned Dutch illustrator Annette Fienieg<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it and want the low-down on this book.<\/p>\n

Today, I feature some more art from it. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“Then every day he sat in his chair and looked at a painting: a landscape so beautiful, so marvelously empty … this is what it must have looked like when the world began. You could see how everything was colored and shaped by the light of the rising sun.”<\/em>
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“The man in the clouds shared his happiness with anyone who wanted to make the climb. And there were many who did. Every day you could see people coming up from below the mountain to see the man in the clouds and his splendid painting.
‘Come on in,’ he would always warmly welcome.”<\/em>
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“…’It’s unbelievable,’ he uttered. ‘A masterpiece! Simply hanging from a nail
in the wall! Do you have any idea how much you would ask for it?’
‘Nothing, I don’t ask for anything,’ the man in the clouds answered. ‘But most people bring me a little something. A marble, a feather, a song, or a loaf of bread, or a…’
‘Sir!’ interrupted the stranger. ‘You have a fortune hanging on the wall!
You have it made for the rest of your life! You’re rich!'”<\/em>
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“It was the goatherd (who had visited him the day before). The man in the clouds didn’t want to see him any more. And also that silly shell girl, and the old lady with her stupid doll, and the man who argued with the voices in his head, and the lonely boy who was really a girl. They might watch it until it crumbles!”<\/em>
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THE MAN IN THE CLOUDS. Text copyright \u00a9 2010 by Koos Meinderts. Illustration \u00a9 2010 by Annette Fienieg. First U.S. Edition \u00a9 2012. Spreads used with permission of Lemniscaat.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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