{"id":3265,"date":"2013-11-22T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2013-11-22T08:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:32:01","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-rachel-isadora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Rachel Isadora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/oldmikambalarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/oldmikambasmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisbeth_Zwerger\">Lisbeth Zwerger!<\/a><\/strong> Lisbeth Zwerger!<\/p>\n<p>This is how most of her fans, including me, respond when they hear she has a new book out. My <em>Kirkus<\/em> column today is about that and is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/brothers-grimm-tales-delicately-imaginatively-illu\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/snort-snort-here-and-hiss-hiss-there\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>), I wrote about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollinschildrens.com\/Kids\/AuthorsAndIllustrators\/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=17066\">Rachel Isadora&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, <em>Old Mikamba Had a Farm<\/em> (Nancy Paulsen Books, October 2013). I&#8217;m following up with some illustrations from the book today, including the one pictured above. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/1elephantslarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/1elephantssmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/2zebraslarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/2zebrassmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/3cheetahslarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/3cheetahssmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/oldmikamba cover.JPG\" border=1><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>OLD MIKAMBA HAD A FARM. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Rachel Isadora. Published by Nancy Paulsen Books\/Penguin, New York. Illustration reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge) &nbsp; Lisbeth Zwerger! Lisbeth Zwerger! This is how most of her fans, including me, respond when they hear she has a new book out. My Kirkus column today is about that and is here. * * * Last week (here), I wrote about Rachel Isadora&#8217;s newest picture book, Old Mikamba Had a [&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-3265","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\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}