{"id":3406,"date":"2014-05-16T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2014-05-16T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:15:48","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-chris-raschka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3406","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Chris Raschka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about two picture books that caught my eye — LeUyen Pham\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> A Piece of Cake<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, May 2014) and Phyllis Rowand’s It Is Night<\/em> (Greenwillow Books, April 2014), illustrated by Laura Dronzek. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote about Chris Raschka’s<\/a><\/strong> new picture book biography, The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening<\/em> (Candlewick, May 2014). That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, and I’m following up with a bit of art today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“Sun Ra drew other musicians to him. They played in small groups, medium-size groups, and big groups, with singers or without singers — all kinds of ways. They were like sailors on a boat bound for a new world, a new world of sound. And like all good sailors, they played and danced and sang while their captain, Sun Ra, steered the ship. They called themselves the Arkestra.”<\/em>
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THE COSMOBIOGRAPHY OF SUN RA: THE SOUND OF JOY IS ENLIGHTENING. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Chris Raschka. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning over at Kirkus, I write about two picture books that caught my eye — LeUyen Pham\u2019s A Piece of Cake (Balzer + Bray, May 2014) and Phyllis Rowand’s It Is Night (Greenwillow Books, April 2014), illustrated by Laura Dronzek. That link is here. * * * Last week, I wrote about Chris Raschka’s […]<\/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-3406","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\/3406","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=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}