{"id":2992,"date":"2013-09-13T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2013-09-13T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:53:15","slug":"what-im-up-to-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-helen-oxenbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2992","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Helen Oxenbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Grampa stepped onto the platform. He waved and waved. His cap was green.”<\/em>
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“Charley barked at the train for a while, and when it was gone, he held his head tall, which is code for <\/em>Follw me, gentlemen! I know the way home!”<\/em>
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I was feeling too restless this week and didn’t want to write about just one<\/em> picture book over at Kirkus<\/em>, so this morning I write about a series of Fall 2013 Picture Book Surprises. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

(Next week, I’ll have art here at 7-Imp from each and every book mentioned in that column. Calling all illustration-lovers: It’ll be art-tastic, you guys.)<\/p>\n

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Last week, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> with author Amy Hest<\/a><\/strong>, whose most recent release is When Charley Met Grampa<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick, September 2013), illustrated by the great Helen Oxenbury<\/a><\/strong>. Above are some spreads from this one, and below is the cover. (This book is a follow-up to last year’s Charley’s First Night<\/em>, featured here<\/a><\/strong> at 7-Imp, if you want to see more art from Oxenbury.)<\/p>\n


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\nUntil Sunday … <\/p>\n

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WHEN CHARLEY MET GRAMPA. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Amy Hest. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Helen Oxenbury. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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