{"id":2471,"date":"2012-11-30T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2012-11-30T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:22:37","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-birgitta-sif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up to at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Birgitta Sif"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Oliver felt a bit different.”<\/em>
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“The next day, as he was playing tennis on his own . . .”<\/em>
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Today over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Eileen Spinelli’s<\/a><\/strong> Cold Snap<\/em>, illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Marjorie Priceman<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n

Last week’s column was devoted to Birgitta Sif’s<\/a><\/strong> Oliver<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. (Misfits unite! Oh, and introverts, too!) Here<\/a><\/strong> is that link, and today I’ve got two spreads (above) from the book. <\/p>\n

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OLIVER. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Birgitta Sif. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Oliver felt a bit different.”(Click to enlarge) “The next day, as he was playing tennis on his own . . .”(Click to enlarge) Today over at Kirkus, I write about Eileen Spinelli’s Cold Snap, illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Marjorie Priceman. That link is here this morning. Last week’s column was devoted to Birgitta Sif’s […]<\/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-2471","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\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}