{"id":3764,"date":"2015-06-12T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:33:43","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-douglas-florian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Douglas Florian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Drawing dragons isn’t hard.
Drag a dragon to your yard.”<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a round-up of some very summer’y picture books, and that link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Since I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> last week about Douglas Florian’s<\/a><\/strong> How to Draw a Dragon<\/em> (Beach Lane\/Simon & Schuster, April 2015), I’ve got some spreads from it today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

[Please note: The type in the spreads pictured here differs from the type in the final version of the book.]<\/em><\/p>\n


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“Dragons may be large in size.
You’ll need lots of art supplies.”<\/em>
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“Dragons, when they wake, are grumpy.
And their heads are rather bumpy.”<\/em>
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“Soothe your dragon with a song
as you draw his teeth so long.”<\/em>
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“Careful when you draw each claw.
Dragons also<\/u> love to draw!”<\/em>
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“Draw your dragon’s pointed spines
using lots of jagged lines.”<\/em>
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HOW TO DRAW A DRAGON. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Douglas Florian. Published by Beach Lane Books, New York. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Drawing dragons isn’t hard.Drag a dragon to your yard.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got a round-up of some very summer’y picture books, and that link is here. * * * Since I wrote here last week about Douglas Florian’s How to Draw a Dragon (Beach Lane\/Simon & Schuster, April 2015), […]<\/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-3764","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\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}