{"id":3690,"date":"2015-03-06T08:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2015-03-06T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:26:38","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-eva-erikkson-and-sydney-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Eva Erikkson and Sydney Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From JonArno Lawson’s <\/em>Sidewalk Flowers,
illustrated by Sydney Smith<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“Dad lifted me up so I’d be closer to the stars that were far, far away. ‘Some of them don’t even exist,’ he said. ‘They’ve gone out already.’ ‘But we can still see them,’ I said. ‘Yes, we can see their light,’ said Dad. ‘It may take several hundred years to arrive here.’ I looked at the stars that weren’t there. And Dad went on telling me their names and carrying me. ‘The Swan,’ he said. ‘The Harp. Big Dog.'”
— From Ulf Stark’s <\/em>When Dad Showed Me the Universe,
illustrated by Eva Erikkson<\/em>
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This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Michael Morpurgo’s Half a Man<\/em>, illustrated by Gemma O’Callaghan, and J. Patrick Lewis’s The Wren and the Sparrow<\/em>, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Today I’ve got some art from JonArno Lawson’s Sidewalk Flowers<\/em>, illustrated by Sydney Smith<\/a><\/strong> (Groundwood, March 2015), as well as Ulf Stark’s<\/a><\/strong> When Dad Showed Me the Universe<\/em>, illustrated by the great Eva Eriksson<\/a><\/strong> (originally released in Sweden in 1998 but coming to American shelves later this year). I wrote about both books here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> last week and want to share some art today. <\/p>\n

Don’t miss Philip Nel’s post<\/a><\/strong> on Sidewalk Flowers<\/em>, and here<\/a><\/strong> Roger Sutton talks to Lawson. <\/p>\n

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SIDEWALK FLOWERS. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by JonArno Lawson. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2015 by Sydney Smith. Published by Groundwood Books, Toronto. Illustrations here reproduced by permission of the publisher. <\/p>\n

WHEN DAD SHOWED ME THE UNIVERSE. English language edition \u00a9 Gecko Press Ltd 2015. Illustrations here reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From JonArno Lawson’s Sidewalk Flowers,illustrated by Sydney Smith “Dad lifted me up so I’d be closer to the stars that were far, far away. ‘Some of them don’t even exist,’ he said. ‘They’ve gone out already.’ ‘But we can still see them,’ I said. ‘Yes, we can see their light,’ said Dad. ‘It may […]<\/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-3690","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\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}