{"id":2500,"date":"2013-01-18T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2013-01-18T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T18:19:41","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-%c3%b8yvind-torseter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring \u00d8yvind Torseter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“My cheek is against Daddy’s cheek, close to his breathing. After a while he says: ‘Tomorrow we’ll chop down the big spruce. It will fall to the ground with a crash.
That’ll be fun, won’t it?’ ‘Mmm,’ I say. Daddy likes chopping down big trees.
I know that. ‘What about the red birds?’ I ask. …”<\/em>
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Today over at Kirkus<\/em>, I weigh in on Jed Henry’s Cheer Up, Mouse!<\/em>, released this month by Houghton Mifflin. That column is here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about My Father’s Arms Are a Boat<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Enchanted Lion, February), originally published in Norgwegian in 2008 and written by Stein Erik Lunde<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by \u00d8yvind Torseter<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I’m following up with some art. <\/p>\n

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“I go back into the living room. My dad looks at me, and I climb onto his lap.
He puts both his arms tight under my knees.
My body is curled up like a ball. I rest my head against his shoulder.”<\/em>
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“I look up at the stars. I look at the moon that looks like a boat. My dad’s arms are like a boat, too. One that sails me out into the middle of the yard. The boat stops.
The stars are so far away and yet so close. ‘If you see a shooting star, you can make a wish,’ Daddy says. ‘I know.’ ‘But you can’t tell anyone what it is.’ ‘I know.'”<\/em>
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“When we get back inside I’m tired. Daddy takes me out of the his coat. I tell him
I’m tired. ‘You can sleep on my lap,’ he says. We watch the fire for a long time.
I still can’t fall asleep. ‘Everything will be all right,’ says Daddy.
‘Are you sure?’ ‘I’m sure.'”<\/em>
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MY FATHER\u2019S ARMS ARE A BOAT. First American edition \u00a9 2012 by Enchanted Lion Books. Text \u00a9 Stein Erik Lunde. Translation \u00a9 2012 Enchanted Lion Books.
Illustration \u00a9 \u00d8yvind Torseter. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“My cheek is against Daddy’s cheek, close to his breathing. After a while he says: ‘Tomorrow we’ll chop down the big spruce. It will fall to the ground with a crash.That’ll be fun, won’t it?’ ‘Mmm,’ I say. Daddy likes chopping down big trees.I know that. ‘What about the red birds?’ I ask. …”(Click to […]<\/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-2500","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\/2500","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=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}