{"id":2612,"date":"2013-08-02T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2013-08-02T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:12:16","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-isabelle-arsenault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Isabelle Arsenault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spread from Jean E. Pendziwol’s <\/em>Once Upon a Northern Night,
illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault<\/a><\/strong>:
“Once upon a northern night \/ I sent the frost \/ to dance on your window \/
and make a frame. \/ It twirled and twisted, \/ curled and coiled, \/ spiraled and spun, \/ climbing around the edges of the glass \/ but leaving the middle \/
as smooth and clear as the frozen pond.”<\/em>
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Spread from Fanny Britt’s <\/em>Jane, The Fox & Me<\/a><\/strong>,
also illustrated by Arsenault<\/em>
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This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Bruce Eric Kaplan’s<\/a><\/strong> Cousin Irv from Mars<\/em>, which makes me laugh. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Jean E. Pendziwol’s Once Upon a Northern Night<\/em>, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault<\/a><\/strong> and released this month from Groundwood Books. <\/p>\n

Pictured above is an illustration from this beautiful picture book, but also pictured there is a spread from Fanny Britt’s new graphic novel, Jane, The Fox & Me<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, also illustrated by Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou, and to be released next month from Groundwood. This is the tenderly-wrought story, originally published in French in 2012, of a girl named H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, who doesn’t fit in at school and whose former friends now shun her. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne finds solace in her copy of Jane Eyre<\/em>, as well as her Kate and Anna McGarrigle<\/a><\/strong> records. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne is none too pleased to find out she’ll have to attend a required nature camp with her classmates, “four nights, forty students, our whole class.” <\/p>\n

Betsy Bird has a detailed review here<\/a><\/strong> of this deeply-felt story of despair and loneliness, which turns toward the light at its close and ends on a note of hope and friendship. <\/p>\n

Below is one more spread from each book. Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“Once upon a northern night \/ a great gray owl gazed down \/ with his great yellow eyes \/ on the milky-white bowl of your yard. \/ Without a sound, \/ not even the quietest whisper, \/ his great silent wings lifted and \/ down, \/ down, \/ down \/ he drifted, \/ leaving a feathery sketch \/ of his passing \/ in the snow.”<\/em>
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ONCE UPON A NORTHERN NIGHT. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Jean E. Pendziwol. Illustrations \u00a9 2013 by Isabelle Arsenault. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n

JANE, THE FOX & ME. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault. English translation copyright \u00a9 2013 by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spread from Jean E. Pendziwol’s Once Upon a Northern Night,illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault:“Once upon a northern night \/ I sent the frost \/ to dance on your window \/and make a frame. \/ It twirled and twisted, \/ curled and coiled, \/ spiraled and spun, \/ climbing around the edges of the glass \/ but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","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=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}