{"id":2425,"date":"2012-09-14T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2012-09-14T05:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:59:48","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-morningplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-mary-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Morning,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Mary Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“…Some blew \/ To the ground, \/ One lit on a rose, \/
And a big one burst \/ On the kitten’s nose.”
— From Miriam Clark Potter’s <\/em>The Golden Book of Little Verses,
originally published in 1953<\/em>
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This morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about a lovely picture book that popped up and surprised me, Elin Kelsey’s You Are Stardust<\/em>, illustrated by Soyeon Kim. That link is here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, released this August. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it. Above is a spread from the book, and below are a couple more.<\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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— From <\/em>The Up and Down Book, originally published in 1964<\/em>
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“A bird can fly. So can I.”
— From Ruth Krauss’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>I Can Fly,
originally published in 1950<\/em>
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A MARY BLAIR TREASURY OF GOLDEN BOOKS. Foreword copyright \u00a9 2012 by John Canemaker. Published by Random House, New York. Spreads posted with permission of publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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