{"id":2536,"date":"2013-03-22T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2013-03-22T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:44:41","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-jeff-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jeff Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early art for <\/em>Phoebe & Digger
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Final art for <\/em>Phoebe & Digger
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This week over at Kirkus<\/em>, I take a look at a picture book import, Rita Jahanforuz’s The Girl With a Brave Heart<\/em>, illustrated by Vali Mintzi and originally published in Hebrew — but brought this March to American bookshelves by Barefoot Books. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about Tricia Springstubb’s<\/a><\/strong> Phoebe & Digger<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, illustrated by Jeff Newman<\/a><\/strong> and to be released by Candlewick next week. If you missed it, it’s here<\/a><\/strong>. Today, Jeff shares a few early sketches and pieces of early art (including the one above, paired with a final spread from the book). <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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PHOEBE AND DIGGER. Text copyright \u00a9 2013 by Tricia Springstubb. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Jeff Newman. Spread reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n

Other images shared with permission of Jeff Newman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early art for Phoebe & Digger(Click to enlarge) Final art for Phoebe & Digger(Click to enlarge) This week over at Kirkus, I take a look at a picture book import, Rita Jahanforuz’s The Girl With a Brave Heart, illustrated by Vali Mintzi and originally published in Hebrew — but brought this March to American bookshelves […]<\/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-2536","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\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}