{"id":2624,"date":"2013-08-23T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2013-08-23T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:18:44","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-christopher-corr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Christopher Corr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9781467720281sp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/9781467720281sp1.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Penda lived in a tiny village in Africa with her mum and her aunties.<br \/>It was rainy season, so Penda&#8217;s dad was<br \/>up in the grasslands looking after the sheep.&#8221;<br \/><\/em>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Jim Tobin&#8217;s <em>The Very Inappropriate Word<\/em>, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedbump.com\/\">Dave Coverly<\/a><\/strong>. That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/words-sing-words-spy-words-crackle-andcurse-words\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/dont-wiggle-dont-wobble-dont-spill-milk\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/voiceinthedesert.org.uk\/\">Stephen Davies&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> <em>Don&#8217;t Spill the Milk!<\/em> (Andersen Press, September 2013), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophercorr.com\/\">Christopher Corr<\/a><\/strong>. A spread is pictured above. <\/p>\n<p>Until Sunday &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/dontspillthemilkcover.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>DON\u2019T SPILL THE MILK! Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Stephen Davies. Illustration copyright \u00a9 2013 by Christopher Corr. Spread used with permission of Andersen Press USA, Minneapolis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Penda lived in a tiny village in Africa with her mum and her aunties.It was rainy season, so Penda&#8217;s dad wasup in the grasslands looking after the sheep.&#8221;(Click to enlarge) This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Jim Tobin&#8217;s The Very Inappropriate Word, illustrated by Dave Coverly. That link is here. * * * [&hellip;]<\/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-2624","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\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}