{"id":2495,"date":"2013-01-10T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T19:22:01","slug":"what-im-up-to-at-kirkus-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Up To at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/cover_1bluebird.jpeg\">Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a brief Q&#038;A with author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2268\">Bob Staake<\/a><\/strong> about his upcoming Spring picture book release from Schwartz &#038; Wade Books, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780375870378\">Bluebird<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, pictured left, which is simply stunning. (I was lucky enough to see an early copy.) <\/p>\n<p>I also ask him about December&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780316204590\">Look! Another Book!<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Little, Brown), which is the very fun sequel to 2011&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780316118620\">Look! A Book!<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, as well as what&#8217;s next on his plate. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/high-octane-visual-poetry-bob-staake\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some sketches and artwork from Bob. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I take a look at <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781592701247\">My Father&#8217;s Arms Are a Boat<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Enchanted Lion), originally published in Norgwegian in 2008 and written by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/no.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stein_Erik_Lunde\">Stein Erik Lunde<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%98yvind_Torseter\">\u00d8yvind Torseter<\/a><\/strong>. That link will be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/my-fathers-arms-are-boat-unafraid-be-contemplative\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> in the afternoon on Friday. (Notice that <em>Kirkus<\/em> has all spiffy-like redesigned their site.) <\/p>\n<p>Until then &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve got a brief Q&#038;A with author\/illustrator Bob Staake about his upcoming Spring picture book release from Schwartz &#038; Wade Books, Bluebird, pictured left, which is simply stunning. (I was lucky enough to see an early copy.) I also ask him about December&#8217;s Look! Another Book! (Little, Brown), which is the [&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-2495","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\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}