{"id":3316,"date":"2014-02-07T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2014-02-08T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T02:30:24","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-carolyn-fisher-and-clotilde-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3316","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Carolyn Fisher and Clotilde Perrin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Clotilde Perrin\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>At the Same Moment Around the World:
“At the same moment, in Paris, France, it is seven o’clock in the morning, and Benedict drinks hot chocolate before school. At the same moment, in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is eight o’clock in the morning when Mitko chases after the school bus.”<\/em>
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From Cindy Jenson-Elliott\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Weeds Find a Way, illustrated by Carolyn Fisher<\/a><\/strong>:
“Weeds send their seeds into the world in wondrous ways:
fluffing up like feathers and floating away on the wind.”<\/em>
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\nThis morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about a quiet, little picture book by Natalie Russell<\/a><\/strong>, who lives and works in Scotland, called Lost for Words<\/em> (Peachtree, March 2014). That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote about Cindy Jenson-Elliott\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Weeds Find a Way<\/em> (Beach Lane Books, February 2014), illustrated by Carolyn Fisher<\/a><\/strong>, and Clotilde Perrin\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> At the Same Moment Around the World<\/em> (Chronicle Books, March 2014), first published in France in 2011. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, and today I follow up with some art from each book. <\/p>\n

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“At the same moment, in Hanoi, Vietnam, it is one o’clock in the afternoon, and Khanh takes a nap despite noise on the street outside. At the same moment,
in Shanghai, China, it is two o’clock in the afternoon, and Chen practices
for the Lunar New Year parade.”<\/em>
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“At the same moment, in Anchorage, Alaska, it is nine o’clock in the evening when William blows on his bedtime tea. At the same moment, in San Francisco, California,
it is ten o’clock at night when Sharon and Peter kiss good bye.”<\/em>
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“… swirled into prickly burrs that stick to socks and fur,
poking into pants and paws like tiny needles …”<\/em>
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“Weeds find a way to stay — unexpected guests who just happen to bring …
the whole family along!”<\/em>
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AT THE SAME MOMENT AROUND THE WORLD. Text copyright \u00a9 2011 by Clotilde Perrin. First published in the U.S. in 2014 by Chronicle Books. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEDS FIND A WAY. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Cindy Jenson-Elliott. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Carolyn Fisher. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Beach Lane Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Clotilde Perrin\u2019s At the Same Moment Around the World:“At the same moment, in Paris, France, it is seven o’clock in the morning, and Benedict drinks hot chocolate before school. At the same moment, in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is eight o’clock in the morning when Mitko chases after the school bus.”(Click to enlarge) From Cindy […]<\/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-3316","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\/3316","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=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}