{"id":3546,"date":"2014-10-10T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:12:40","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-oliver-jeffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Oliver Jeffers"},"content":{"rendered":"


 
This morning’s Kirkus<\/em> column is all about Mac Barnett’s<\/a><\/strong> Sam and Dave Dig a Hole<\/em>, illustrated by Jon Klassen<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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

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I wrote last week (here<\/a><\/strong>) about Oliver Jeffers’ Once Upon an Alphabet<\/em> (Philomel, October 2014). <\/p>\n

Today, I follow up with a bit of art from it. <\/p>\n

Enjoy.
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“How many elephants can you fit inside an envelope?”<\/em>
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“The King of France \/ Went out for a dance \/
And forgot to bring along keys.”<\/em>
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ONCE UPON AN ALPHABET: SHORT STORIES FOR ALL THE LETTERS. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Oliver Jeffers. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Philomel Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 This morning’s Kirkus column is all about Mac Barnett’s Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen. That link is here. * * * I wrote last week (here) about Oliver Jeffers’ Once Upon an Alphabet (Philomel, October 2014). Today, I follow up with a bit of art from it. Enjoy.    <\/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-3546","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\/3546","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=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}