{"id":3830,"date":"2015-08-28T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2015-08-28T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T01:01:24","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringjayme-mcgowan-victoria-turnbull-phoebe-wahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Jayme McGowan, Victoria Turnbull, & Phoebe Wahl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Where I lead, Oscar follows.”
— From Victoria Turnbull’s <\/em>The Sea Tiger
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“‘Shhh,’ said Sonya’s papa. ‘What might seem unfair to you
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— From Phoebe Wahl’s <\/em>Sonya’s Chickens
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— From Jayme McGowna’s <\/em>One Bear Extraordinaire<\/center>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I peek at some Fall 2015 picture book releases and how in many of them, you’ll be greeting old friends. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about the picture books of three newcomers, so I’ve got art (and, in some cases, preliminary images) from each book today. Those books are Jayme McGowan’s<\/a><\/strong> One Bear Extraordinaire<\/em> (Abrams, September 2015), Victoria Turnbull’s<\/a><\/strong> The Sea Tiger<\/em> (Candlewick, October 2015), and Phoebe Wahl’s<\/a><\/strong> Sonya’s Chickens<\/em> (Tundra, August 2015). <\/p>\n

Enjoy the art!<\/p>\n


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From The Sea Tiger<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“We go to extraordinary places.”
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From Sonya’s Chickens<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Final art: “The floor of the coop was frosted with feathers, and Sonya cried out as she counted not three, but two frightened chickens cowering in the rafters above. The third was nowhere to be seen. Sonya burst into tears. Before she knew it,
strong arms scooped her up and she cried into her papa’s beard.”<\/em>
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From One Bear Extraordinaire<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Bear sketch<\/em><\/center>
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Campfire sketch<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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Final art: “‘We’ve got ourselves a singer!’ Bear said. …”<\/em>
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ONE BEAR EXTRAORDINAIRE. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Jayme McGowan. Published by Abrams, New York. All images reproduced by permission of Jayme McGowan.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE SEA TIGER. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Victoria Turnbull. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

SONYA’S CHICKENS. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Phoebe Wahl. Published by Tundra Books, a division of Penguin Random House, New York. All images reproduced by permission of Phoebe Wahl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Where I lead, Oscar follows.”— From Victoria Turnbull’s The Sea Tiger(Click to enlarge)   “‘Shhh,’ said Sonya’s papa. ‘What might seem unfair to youmight make sense to a fox.’ And he told her a story. …”— From Phoebe Wahl’s Sonya’s Chickens(Click to enlarge)   — From Jayme McGowna’s One Bear Extraordinaire   This morning over […]<\/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-3830","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\/3830","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=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}