{"id":2572,"date":"2013-05-24T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2013-05-24T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:09:07","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringjoanne-lew-vriethoff-and-christian-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Joanne Lew-Vriethoff and Christian Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Illustration from Linda Ashman’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Peace, Baby!<\/a><\/strong>,
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Christian Robinson’s<\/a><\/strong> character development and exploration for
some of the characters in Linda Ashman’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Rain!<\/a><\/strong>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Emily Jenkins’<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, Water in the Park: A Book About Water and the Times of the Day<\/em>, released recently by Schwartz & Wade Books and illustrated by Stephanie Graegin<\/a><\/strong>. (Stephanie will visit 7-Imp next week.) That link is here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n

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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted with picture book author Linda Ashman<\/a><\/strong> (that link is here<\/a><\/strong>) and follow up today with some art from her two most recent picture books, Rain!<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (Houghton Mifflin, March 2013), illustrated by Christian Robinson<\/a><\/strong>, and Peace, Baby!<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (Chronicle, April 2013), illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Two things I didn’t have room for in the column last week: For those interested in writing picture books, Linda has some advice on the “For Writers”<\/a><\/strong> tab of her website. (Incidentally, Linda starting teaching picture book classes in Denver before she and her family moved, and now she’s turning those classes and other workshops into a “how to” guide.) <\/p>\n

Secondly, in our Q&A last week, Linda talked about whittling Rain!<\/em><\/a><\/strong> down to its 78 words. Both manuscript and storyboard are available on the Rain!<\/em> page<\/strong><\/a> of her website, if anyone\u2019s interested.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the art, and I thank Christian, who is also sharing some early development images for his illustrations in Rain!<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cover art design<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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Final cover<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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Christian’s sketch book for rough drafts<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Christian: “Sharing ideas with art director and editor on Post-it notes”<\/em>
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Christian: “Color and design with digital tools”<\/em>
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Christian: “Cutting paper and painting for final art”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Final art<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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RAIN! Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Linda Ashman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Christian Robinson. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston. All images reproduced with permission of Christian Robinson and Houghton Mifflin.<\/em><\/p>\n

PEACE, BABY! Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Linda Ashman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff. Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco. All images reproduced with permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration from Linda Ashman’s Peace, Baby!,illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff Christian Robinson’s character development and exploration forsome of the characters in Linda Ashman’s Rain!(Click to enlarge)   This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Emily Jenkins’ newest picture book, Water in the Park: A Book About Water and the Times of the Day, released recently […]<\/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-2572","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\/2572","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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}