{"id":3609,"date":"2014-12-19T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2014-12-19T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:10:06","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-meilo-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Meilo So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Blown by the wind, \/ water sails high. \/ Tumbling cloud plumes curl through the air. \/<br \/>Soplada por el viento, \/ el agua se remonta. \/ Volutas nebulosas ruedan por el aire.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThis morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about some holiday picture books titles, what I think are some of the best of the season. It&#8217;s a Christmas miracle: LeUyen Pham has made me like &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas&#8221; again. That link will be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/partners\/seven-impossible-things\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> soon. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/celebrate-water-celebrate-life\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patmora.com\/\">Pat Mora&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Water Rolls, Water Rises<\/em> (Lee &#038; Low, October 2014), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2379\">Meilo So<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I share some spreads from it. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Water rolls \/ onto the shore \/ under the sun, under the moon. \/<br \/>El agua rueda \/ hacia la orilla \/ bajo el sol, bajo la luna.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;In the murmur of marsh wind, \/ water slumbers on moss, \/ whispers soft songs far under frog feet. \/ En el viento susurrante de los pantanos, \/ el agua duerme sobre el musgo, \/ murmura suaves canciones bajo patitas de ranas.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 4large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/WATER ROLLS spread 4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Water burbles in springs, \/ gurgles and turns \/ down streams and rivers seeking the sea. \/ El agua burbujea en los manantiales, \/ borbotea y desciende \/<br \/>por los arroyos y r\u00edos buscando el mar.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/waterrollscover.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>WATER ROLLS, WATER RISES. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Pat Mora. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Meilo So. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Children&#8217;s Book Press, an imprint of Lee &#038; Low Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blown by the wind, \/ water sails high. \/ Tumbling cloud plumes curl through the air. \/Soplada por el viento, \/ el agua se remonta. \/ Volutas nebulosas ruedan por el aire.&#8221;(Click to enlarge spread) &nbsp; This morning over at Kirkus, I write about some holiday picture books titles, what I think are some of [&hellip;]<\/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-3609","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\/3609","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=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}