{"id":3436,"date":"2014-06-20T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:21:13","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-raul-colon-eva-erikssonrudy-gutierrez-and-dave-mckean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Ra\u00fal Col\u00f3n, Eva Eriksson,
Rudy Gutierrez, and Dave McKean"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Illustration from Bo R. Holmberg\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>A Day with Dad<\/a><\/strong> (2008),
illustrated Eva Eriksson<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/center>
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\nThis week over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a pack of dogs — Mogie, Mister Bud, Zorro, and Gaston, as well a cat and dog showdown from Chris Gall<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week (here<\/a><\/strong>), I rounded up a few good Father’s Day picture books (both old and new), so today I follow up with a bit of art from each. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


 

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From Arthur Dorros\u2019 <\/em>Pap\u00e1 and Me
(Rayo\/HarperCollins, 2008),
illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez
(paperback reprint out this year):<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center>
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“‘Agua Man.’ ‘Water Man’ he calls me.
Water here, water everywhere. Pap\u00e1 swings me over.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><\/p>\n


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From Arthur Dorros\u2019 <\/em>Abuelo (Harper, April 2014), illustrated by Ra\u00fal Col\u00f3n:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center>
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“We would ride into the clouds, with the sky, <\/em>‘el cielo,’ wrapped around us.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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From Neil Gaiman’s
<\/em>The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
(HarperCollins, 1997),
illustrated by Dave McKean:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center>
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(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center>
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From Bo R. Holmberg’s <\/em>A Day with Dad
(Candlewick, 2008),
illustrated by Eva Eriksson:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center>
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“The train pulls into the station and comes to a stop. Then it sighs, as if it’s tired from the long journey. Then the door sighs open, too. And there is Dad! As Mom says, ‘Good-bye,’ Dad gives Tim a hug and lifts him into the air. ‘Hello, Tim!’ he says.
‘What should we do today?'”<\/em>
(Click to see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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“Tim and Dad find seats near the middle—Tim always likes to sit in the middle. As they watch the movie, sometimes Dad laughs. He has a funny laugh. When Tim hears Dad laugh, it makes him laugh, too. When the lights come on, Dad says, ‘Time for pizza!'”<\/em>
(Click to see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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\nA DAY WITH DAD. Text copyright \u00a9 2008 by Bo R. Holmberg. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2008 by Eva Eriksson. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAPA AND ME. Text copyright \u00a9 2008 by Arthur Dorros. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2008 by Rudy Gutierrez. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, HarperCollins, New York. Paperback reprint is copyright \u00a9 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

ABUELO. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Arthur Dorros. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Ra\u00fal Col\u00f3n. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, HarperCollins, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE DAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH. Text copyright \u00a9 1997 by Neil Gaiman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 1997 by Dave McKean. Published by HarperCollins, New York. The illustration from this book is re-posted here from this 2009 7-Imp interview<\/a><\/strong> with Dave McKean.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration from Bo R. Holmberg\u2019s A Day with Dad (2008),illustrated Eva Eriksson   This week over at Kirkus, I’ve got a pack of dogs — Mogie, Mister Bud, Zorro, and Gaston, as well a cat and dog showdown from Chris Gall. That link is here. * * * Last week (here), I rounded up a […]<\/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-3436","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\/3436","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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}