{"id":3918,"date":"2015-11-13T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:00:24","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-nicole-gsell-and-mark-pett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Nicole Gsell and Mark Pett"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Mark Pett’s <\/em>Lizard from the Park<\/center>
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“Scritch. Scratch. Chip! Whoosh! The swift family swarms from the chimney. …”
— From Marilyn Grohoske Evans’ <\/em>Spit & Sticks: A Chimney Full of Swifts,
illustrated by Nicole Gsell<\/em>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus I write about Tom Angleberger’s<\/a><\/strong> new picture book, McToad Mows Tiny Island<\/em> (Abrams, September 2015), illustrated by John Hendrix<\/a><\/strong>. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Mark Pett’s<\/a><\/strong> Lizard from the Park<\/em> (Simon & Schuster, September 2015), as well as Marilyn Grohoske Evans’ Spit & Sticks: A Chimney Full of Swifts<\/em>, illustrated by Nicole Gsell<\/a><\/strong> (Charlesbridge, September 2015), so I’ve got art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!
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From Lizard from the Park<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Leonard put the egg in his backpack, zipped it up, and carried it home. …”<\/em>
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“In his room, Leonard and the egg played together for the entire afternoon. …”<\/em>
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“In the morning, Leonard noticed something. …”<\/em>
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“Leonard couldn’t wait to show his new friend the world outside. …”<\/em>
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“In the weeks following, Leonard took Buster everywhere. …”<\/em>
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“As spring turned to summer, Leonard realized something:
Not only did buster keep growing and growing and growing,
but he seemed to be enjoying himself less and less.”<\/em>
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From Spit & Sticks:
A Chimney Full of Swifts<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“A stub-tailed, cigar-shaped bird streaks across the Texas spring sky. It’s a chimney swift, thousands of miles from its other home in South America. …”<\/em>
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“Fun ends. Work begins. The birds’ long claws snatch twigs from the treetops. …”<\/em>
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“The cornstalks in the farmer’s field grow taller and stronger. The young swifts grow bigger and braver. They push, shove, jab, and jostle.”<\/em><\/center>
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“And once again the chimney is silent . . . until next year.”<\/em>
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LIZARD FROM THE PARK. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Mark Pett. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Simon & Schuster, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

SPIT & STICKS: A CHIMNEY FULL OF SWIFTS. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Marilyn Grohoske Evans. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2015 by Nicole Gsell and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Mark Pett’s Lizard from the Park   “Scritch. Scratch. Chip! Whoosh! The swift family swarms from the chimney. …”— From Marilyn Grohoske Evans’ Spit & Sticks: A Chimney Full of Swifts,illustrated by Nicole Gsell(Click to enlarge spread and read full text)   This morning over at Kirkus I write about Tom Angleberger’s new […]<\/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-3918","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\/3918","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=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}