{"id":3711,"date":"2015-04-03T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2015-04-04T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T00:55:59","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-holly-clifton-brown-and-laura-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Holly Clifton-Brown and Laura Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Miriam B. Schiffer’s <\/em>Stella Brings the Family,
illustrated by Holly Clifton-Brown<\/em><\/center>
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“Heather also has two mommies: Mama Jane and Mama Kate.”<\/em>
— From Lesl\u00e9a Newman\u2019s <\/em>Heather Has Two Mommies,
illustrated by Laura Cornell<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got two new and quite wonderful picture books — both about bus rides. They are totally worth the ticket. (I can’t resist that weak pun. Forgive me.)<\/p>\n

That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about the birthday edition of Lesl\u00e9a Newman\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Heather Has Two Mommies<\/em> (Candlewick, March 2015), illustrated by Laura Cornell, as well as Miriam B. Schiffer’s Stella Brings the Family<\/em>, with art from British illustrator Holly Clifton-Brown<\/a><\/strong> and coming in May from Chronicle Books. So, today I have some spreads from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!
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“Stella dashed to her cubby and raced to her spot.
Mrs. Abbott had a surprise for the class!”<\/em>
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“‘We’re going to have a celebration for Mother’s Day,’ she said …”<\/em>
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“… Stella worked harder than everyone.”<\/em>
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“The big day arrived! …”<\/em>
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“One day, Mama Kate and Mama Jane tell Heather that they have a surprise for her. …”<\/em>
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(Original cover)<\/em><\/center>
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HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES. Text copyright \u00a9 1989, 2000, 2009, 2015 by Leslea Newman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2015 by Laura Cornell. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

STELLA BRINGS THE FAMILY. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Miriam B. Schiffer. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2015 by Holly Clifton-Brown. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Miriam B. Schiffer’s Stella Brings the Family,illustrated by Holly Clifton-Brown   “Heather also has two mommies: Mama Jane and Mama Kate.”— From Lesl\u00e9a Newman\u2019s Heather Has Two Mommies,illustrated by Laura Cornell(Click to enlarge spread)   Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got two new and quite wonderful picture books — both about bus rides. […]<\/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-3711","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\/3711","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=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}