{"id":3927,"date":"2015-11-20T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:46:14","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-john-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring John Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Tom Angleberger’s<\/a><\/strong> McToad Mows Tiny Island<\/em> (Abrams, September 2015), illustrated by John Hendrix<\/a><\/strong>. Today, let’s take a peek inside the book. If John Hendrix’s art doesn’t wake you up this morning, I don’t know what will. <\/p>\n

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There have been a lot of discussions this week about refugee resettlement in the wake of terrorist attacks across the globe. My column at Kirkus<\/em> today was prompted by that and some thoughts on responding with compassion — and three older picture books, in particular, that come to my mind. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy John’s art below!<\/p>\n


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“Every other day of the week he mows the grass on Big Island.
But Thursday is the day he mows … Tiny Island.”<\/em>
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“The train takes the lawn mower to the airport.
A conveyor belt carries the lawn mower to an airplane.”<\/em>
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“A crane lowers the lawn mower onto the island.”<\/em>
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“McToad mows Tiny Island.”<\/em>
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“McToad pauses. He drinks a glass of lemonade.
He puts a little oil in the lawn mower.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Then … The crane lifts the lawn mower onto the boat. …”<\/em>
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MCTOAD MOWS TINY ISLAND. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Tom Angleberger. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2015 by John Hendrix. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Abrams, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week at Kirkus, I wrote here about Tom Angleberger’s McToad Mows Tiny Island (Abrams, September 2015), illustrated by John Hendrix. Today, let’s take a peek inside the book. If John Hendrix’s art doesn’t wake you up this morning, I don’t know what will. * * * There have been a lot of discussions this […]<\/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-3927","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\/3927","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=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}