{"id":3948,"date":"2015-12-18T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T20:26:45","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-pascal-blanchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Pascal Blanchet"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“She hears faint voices coming from outside. Peeking through the curtains,
she sees a car in front of her house. …”<\/em><\/center>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got the Grimm Brothers on the mind. That is here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n

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Last week I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about an import and my favorite holiday picture book this year, India Desjardins\u2019<\/a><\/strong> Marguerite\u2019s Christmas<\/em>, illustrated by Pascal Blanchet<\/a><\/strong> (Enchanted Lion, November 2015). I’m following up today with some beautiful spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
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“Marguerite Godin would be happy if she never had to
set foot outside her house ever again.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“So tonight, once again, she’ll celebrate Christmas Eve her way …”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center>
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“… Marguerite is anxious all the same. What if it’s
a family of criminals that plans to trick and rob her?”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“Marguerite wonders what’s going on. …”<\/em>
(Click to see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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MARGUERITE’S CHRISTMAS. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Enchanted Lion Books for English-language translation. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“She hears faint voices coming from outside. Peeking through the curtains,she sees a car in front of her house. …”   Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got the Grimm Brothers on the mind. That is here today. * * * Last week I wrote here about an import and my favorite holiday picture book this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","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=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}