{"id":3585,"date":"2014-11-21T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:22:28","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-alexis-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Alexis Deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about B\u00e1r\u00f0ur Oskarsson\u2019s The Flat Rabbit<\/em>, released by Owlkids Books in September. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Last week, I wrote about Russell Hoban’s<\/a><\/strong> Jim’s Lion<\/em>, which has been re-imagined as a graphic novel (Candlewick, November 2014) with the illustrations of Alexis Deacon<\/a><\/strong>. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, and above and below are some spreads from the book, as well as the cover of the 2001 picture book with art from Ian Andrew. <\/p>\n

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JIM’S LION. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Russell Hoban. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Alexis Deacon. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click to enlarge)   This morning over at Kirkus, I write about B\u00e1r\u00f0ur Oskarsson\u2019s The Flat Rabbit, released by Owlkids Books in September. That link is here. Last week, I wrote about Russell Hoban’s Jim’s Lion, which has been re-imagined as a graphic novel (Candlewick, November 2014) with the illustrations of Alexis Deacon. That link […]<\/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-3585","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\/3585","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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}