{"id":3237,"date":"2013-10-18T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T01:27:58","slug":"what-im-up-to-at-kirkus-todayplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-amy-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Up To at <em>Kirkus<\/em> Today,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week,<br \/>Featuring Amy Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/image001deedee1.jpg\" border=1><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eve_Bunting\">Eve Bunting&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, <em>Big Bear&#8217;s Big Boat<\/em>, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/big-bears-zen-serenity\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I weighed in on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1959\">Amy Schwartz&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Dee Dee and Me<\/em>, which was posted <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/how-handle-sibling-woes\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I have some art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/image002deedee2.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/image004deedee4.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/image003deedee3.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/deedeecover.jpg\" border=1><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>DEE DEE AND ME. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Amy Schwartz. Published by Holiday House, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I write about Eve Bunting&#8217;s newest picture book, Big Bear&#8217;s Big Boat, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. That link is here. * * * Last week, I weighed in on Amy Schwartz&#8217;s Dee Dee and Me, which was posted here. Today, I have some art from the book. Enjoy.<\/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-3237","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\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}