{"id":3465,"date":"2014-07-18T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2014-07-18T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:24:44","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-matt-phelan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Matt Phelan"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAnyone else remember Loretta Mason Potts<\/em>, written by Mary Chase and originally published in 1958? That’s (mostly) the subject of my Kirkus<\/em> column today, as the book was just reissued by The New York Review Children\u2019s Collection. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I chatted (here<\/a><\/strong>) with author-illustrator Matt Phelan<\/a><\/strong> about his 2014 projects, Burleigh Mut\u00e9n\u2019s Miss Emily<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick), released back in March, and his own picture book, Druthers<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (also from Candlewick), coming in September. (Pictured above is an early sketch from Druthers<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Today, we’ll look at a bit of art from each book, as well as some sketches from Matt. I thank him for sharing. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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Early sketches from Burleigh Mut\u00e9n\u2019s Miss Emily<\/em><\/strong><\/font>
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Final art from Burleigh Mut\u00e9n\u2019s Miss Emily<\/em><\/strong><\/font>
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“Till the ribbon made her into a Maypole.”<\/em>
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Early sketches from Matt’s Druthers<\/em><\/strong><\/font>
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Final art from Druthers<\/em><\/strong><\/font>
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“If I had my druthers …”<\/em>
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“I would be a pirate captain.”<\/em>
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\nDRUTHERS. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Matt Phelan. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n

MISS EMILY. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Burleigh Muten. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Matt Phelan. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n

All sketches posted with permission of Matt Phelan.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone else remember Loretta Mason Potts, written by Mary Chase and originally published in 1958? That’s (mostly) the subject of my Kirkus column today, as the book was just reissued by The New York Review Children\u2019s Collection. That link is here. * * * Last week, I chatted (here) with author-illustrator Matt Phelan about his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","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=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}