{"id":2523,"date":"2013-03-01T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:43:11","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-steven-guarnaccia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Steven Guarnaccia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“When Pop left to be a soldier, I wanted to go with him. ‘I’m brave,’ I told Pop.
‘I know, Mikey,’ he said, patting my shoulder. ‘And you’ll need to be,
’cause it takes just as much courage to stay behind.'”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><\/p>\n

Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote about Deborah Hopkinson’s<\/a><\/strong> Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Putnam, February 2013), illustrated by Steven Guarnaccia<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. Up above, I’ve got one full spread from the book — for those of you who want to take a brief peek inside. <\/p>\n

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This morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I have a handful of reasons I think Hilary McKay’s<\/a><\/strong> Lulu<\/a><\/strong><\/em> chapter book series, imported from the UK, is worth checking out. <\/p>\n

And that link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Enjoy, and see you on Sunday. <\/p>\n

KNIT YOUR BIT: A WORLD WAR I STORY. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Deborah Hopkinson. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Steven Guarnaccia. G. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, an imprint of Penguin, New York. Spread used with permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When Pop left to be a soldier, I wanted to go with him. ‘I’m brave,’ I told Pop.‘I know, Mikey,’ he said, patting my shoulder. ‘And you’ll need to be,’cause it takes just as much courage to stay behind.’”(Click to enlarge spread) Last week at Kirkus, I wrote about Deborah Hopkinson’s Knit Your Bit: A […]<\/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-2523","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\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}