{"id":3667,"date":"2015-02-13T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:37:38","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-jean-jullien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br \/>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jean Jullien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/9780763675783.int.1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/9780763675783.int.1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThis morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about a small handful of new picture book imports, since I was inspired by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/2015\/02\/collection-development\/usbby-presents-its-annual-outstanding-international-books-list\/\">just-released<\/a><\/strong> 2015 Outstanding International Books List from USBBY. That <em>Kirkus<\/em> write-up is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/books-across-borders\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Up above is a spread from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seantaylorstories.com\/?riddle=show\">Sean Taylor&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Hoot Owl: Master of Disguise<\/em> (Candlewick, February 2015), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanjullien.com\/\">Jean Jullien<\/a><\/strong>, which I wrote about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/its-owl-good\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> last week. <\/p>\n<p>(The trailer is good stuff too. You can visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottomshelfbooks.com\/2015\/02\/hoot-owl-master-of-disguise-exclusive.html\">Minh L\u00ea&#8217;s site<\/a><\/strong> to see it.)<\/p>\n<p>Until Sunday &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/hootowlcover.JPG\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>HOOT OWL, MASTER OF DISGUISE. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Sean Taylor. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Jean Jullien. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge) &nbsp; This morning over at Kirkus, I write about a small handful of new picture book imports, since I was inspired by the just-released 2015 Outstanding International Books List from USBBY. That Kirkus write-up is here. * * * Up above is a spread from Sean Taylor&#8217;s Hoot Owl: Master of Disguise [&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-3667","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\/3667","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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}