{"id":2564,"date":"2013-05-10T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2013-05-10T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:50:45","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-yokococo-or-heres-to-the-super-freaks-and-rotters-through-and-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Yokococo (Or: Here’s to the Super Freaks and Rotters Through and Through)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“There once was a good little cat named Matilda …
and a naughty little cat named Hans. They were SO diffferent!”<\/em>
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This morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Cecil Castellucci’s<\/a><\/strong> and Sara Varon’s<\/a><\/strong> Odd Duck<\/em>, because we should all celebrate our inner (and outer) super freak — as well as, for that matter, the introverts of the world. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week Cecil and Sara will visit to chat. <\/p>\n

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Last week at Kirkus<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it and are so inclined to read it, I had this on my mind and wrote about it, partially prompted by a picture book from Japanese author\/illustrator Yoko Shima, who goes by Yokococo<\/a><\/strong>, called Matilda and Hans<\/a><\/strong><\/em>: Selma G. Lanes once wrote, \u201cIf you would truly teach young children through the books they listen to or read themselves, give them a hero who is an unregenerately bad example, a rotter through and through.\u201d <\/p>\n

Matilda and Hans<\/em> was originally published in 2012, but this is the first U.S. edition. Above is a spread from the book. <\/p>\n

Till Sunday …<\/p>\n

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MATILDA AND HANS. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Yokococo Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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