{"id":2510,"date":"2013-02-08T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:08:32","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-a-bit-of-art-from-maurice-sendak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring a Bit of Art from Maurice Sendak"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>
\n

(Click to enlarge slightly)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Last Friday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about two recent reissues illustrated by Maurice Sendak<\/a><\/strong> — Janice May Udry’s<\/a><\/strong> The Moon Jumpers<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, originally released in 1959 from HarperCollins, as well as I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild\u2019s Pocket Book<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, edited by the great Iona and Peter Opie<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I Saw Esau<\/em> was reissued by Candlewick Press at the end of 2012 in honor of the book’s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Pictured above is a spread from I Saw Esau<\/em>. <\/p>\n

* * *<\/center><\/p>\n

Today at Kirkus<\/em>, I weigh in on Dan Yaccarino’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, Doug Unplugged<\/em>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Until later … <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n

I SAW ESAU. Text \u00a9 1992 by Iona Opie. Illustrations \u00a9 1992 by Maurice Sendak. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA, on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click to enlarge slightly) Last Friday over at Kirkus, I wrote here about two recent reissues illustrated by Maurice Sendak — Janice May Udry’s The Moon Jumpers, originally released in 1959 from HarperCollins, as well as I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild\u2019s Pocket Book, edited by the great Iona and Peter Opie. I Saw Esau was […]<\/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-2510","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\/2510","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=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}