{"id":3260,"date":"2013-11-15T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2013-11-15T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:12:50","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-anne-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Anne Villeneuve"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“‘I’ve had ENOUGH!’ she cries. ‘I’m leaving.'”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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“‘Mama,’ says Loula, ‘I’m going to Africa.’ ‘Wonderful,’ sings her mother
while practicing her role for the opera. ‘Just don’t catch a cold.'”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I have some thoughts on Rachel Isadora’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, Old Mikamba Had a Farm<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Next week, as always, I will have some art from it here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n

That Kirkus<\/em> link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about the latest picture book from Canadian author\/illustrator Anne Villeneuve<\/a><\/strong>, Loula is Leaving for Africa<\/em> (Kids Can Press, September 2013). <\/p>\n

That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Here today at 7-Imp (above) is a bit of art from it. <\/p>\n

Until Sunday …<\/p>\n

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LOULA IS LEAVING FOR AFRICA. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Anne Villeneuve. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kids Can Press, Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘I’ve had ENOUGH!’ she cries. ‘I’m leaving.’” “‘Mama,’ says Loula, ‘I’m going to Africa.’ ‘Wonderful,’ sings her motherwhile practicing her role for the opera. ‘Just don’t catch a cold.’” This morning over at Kirkus, I have some thoughts on Rachel Isadora’s newest picture book, Old Mikamba Had a Farm. Next week, as always, I will […]<\/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-3260","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\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}