{"id":2543,"date":"2013-04-05T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2013-04-05T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:03:38","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-jon-klassen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jon Klassen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s alphabet soup like you’ve never quite seen it over at my Kirkus<\/em> column this morning, where I write about Kashmira Sheth\u2019s Tiger in My Soup<\/em> (Peachtree, April 2013), illustrated by Jeffrey Ebbeler. That link is here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n

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See the illustration above from Lemony Snicket’s<\/a><\/strong> The Dark<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, illustrated by Jon Klassen<\/a><\/strong> (Little, Brown, April 2013)? It’s, hands down, my favorite picture book illustration from 2013 thus far. <\/p>\n

As a follow-up to the Kirkus<\/em> Q&A (here<\/a><\/strong>) I conducted last week with the book’s editor, Susan Rich, I have more art from the book below. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. (Oh, and don’t miss this recent Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/a><\/strong> by Jenny Brown with Snicket and Klassen.) <\/p>\n

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“Laszlo was afraid of the dark.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><\/p>\n

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“The voice of the dark was as creaky as the roof of the house, and as smooth and cold as the windows, and even though the dark was right next to Laszlo,
the voice seemed very far away. ‘What do you want?’ asked Laszlo.
‘I want to show you something,’ said the dark.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><\/p>\n

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THE DARK. Text copyright \u00a9 2013 by Lemony Snicket. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Jon Klassen. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n

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