{"id":3327,"date":"2014-02-21T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2014-02-21T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:30:01","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-jon-j-muth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jon J Muth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThis morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about a nonfiction children&#8217;s title, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahelton.ca\/\">Sarah Elton&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know About Food and Cooking<\/em> (Owlkids Books, March 2014). It&#8217;s especially good for the budding, young chefs in your life. That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/cooking-magic-touch\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonjmuth.com\/muth.html'\">Jon J Muth&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Hi, Koo!<\/em> (Scholastic, February 2014). That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/capturing-instant\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and today I&#8217;m following up with some art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 1use.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to see full spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 2left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo 2right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo3left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Hi Koo3right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/hikoocover.JPG\"><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><br \/>\n<em>HI, KOO! A YEAR OF SEASONS. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Jon J Muth. Published by Scholastic Press, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge) &nbsp; This morning over at Kirkus, I write about a nonfiction children&#8217;s title, Sarah Elton&#8217;s Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know About Food and Cooking (Owlkids Books, March 2014). It&#8217;s especially good for the budding, young chefs in your life. That link is here. * * * Last week, I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}