{"id":3956,"date":"2015-12-30T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2015-12-30T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:29:32","slug":"what-i-did-at-kirkus-last-week-featuring-everett-aison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"What I Did at Kirkus<\/em> Last Week, Featuring Everett Aison"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“A white blanket lay humped and piled over everything in sight.
Could this be the New York he had known in the green of summer?”<\/em><\/center>
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\nLast week here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote in part about Rhoda Levine’s<\/a><\/strong> Arthur<\/em>, illustrated by Everett Aison<\/a><\/strong>. Arthur<\/em> was originally released in 1962 but re-released in October by the New York Review Children\u2019s Collection. I’ve got a bit of art from the book here today. <\/p>\n

(I also wrote last week about John Burningham’s Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present<\/em>. You can see a spread from it in this<\/a><\/strong> previous 7-Imp post.)<\/p>\n


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“The next day the races occurred just as before, one in the morning and one in the evening. Arthur flew to a traffic light before they began.”<\/em>
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“Suddenly he heard a most unbirdlike whistle. Arthur cocked his head. As he did so, a spray of soft white crumbs fell all around him. The spray had come from the hand of an old man who stood nearby. …”<\/em><\/center>
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“… Arthur saw a group of New Yorkers gather to sing ‘Gloria’ on a terribly cold night. ‘Surely, the world wants to be a bird,’ Arthur said as he sat on his statue’s finger.
The world might make a very good bird, indeed, he reflected.”<\/em>
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ARTHUR. Copyright \u00a9 1962 by Everett Aison and Rhoda Levine. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, New York Review of Books.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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