{"id":3579,"date":"2014-11-14T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2014-11-14T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:13:09","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-floyd-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Floyd Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“… With every bend, I hope. \/ With every pli\u00e9, \/ every turn, \/
every grand jet\u00e9, I hope. …”<\/em>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Russell Hoban’s<\/a><\/strong> Jim’s Lion<\/em>. It’s been re-imagined as a graphic novel with the illustrations of Alexis Deacon<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Kristy Dempsey’s A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream<\/em>, illustrated by Floyd Cooper<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I’ve got some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

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“Stars hardly shine in the New York City sky, \/ with the factories spilling out \/ pillars of smoke \/ and streetlights spreading \/ bright halos round their pin-top faces. …”<\/em>
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“Mama says wishing on stars is a waste anyhow, \/ says you don’t need
stars in the sky \/ to make your dreams come true. \/ Hope can pick your dream up,
she says, \/ off the floor of your heart, \/ when you think it can’t happen, \/ no how,
no way, \/ though unlike wishing \/ Mama says \/ hoping \/ is hard work. …”<\/em>
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“In my heart I’m the one leaping \/ across that stage, \/ raising myself high on those shoulders, \/ then falling \/ slowly \/ slowly \/ slowly \/ to the arms below. …”<\/em>
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A DANCE LIKE STARLIGHT: ONE BALLERINA’S DREAM. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Kristy Dempsey. Illustrations \u00a9 2014 by Floyd Cooper. Published by Philomel, New York. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-3579","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\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}