{"id":3966,"date":"2016-01-12T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2016-01-12T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:50:35","slug":"a-2016-picture-book-preview-featuring-iacopo-bruno-bryan-collier-laura-dronzek-rick-lieder-josee-masse-yuyi-morales-zachariah-ohora-and-red-nose-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"A 2016 Picture Book Preview, Featuring Iacopo Bruno, Bryan Collier, Laura Dronzek, Rick Lieder, Jos\u00e9e Masse, Yuyi Morales, Zachariah OHora, and Red Nose Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nPictured above is one of the characters from Ame Dyckman’s<\/a><\/strong> upcoming picture book (coming in April), illustrated by Zachariah OHora<\/a><\/strong>. I love this girl’s shock of red hair. She’s welcoming you all to a sort of illustration dump today. Well, that phrasing sounds very ineloquent, but it’s a happy thing. <\/p>\n

About two weeks ago, I wrote over here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> about some upcoming early-2016 picture books—-collaborations between authors and illustrators, some new pairings and some to which we readers are accustomed—and I follow up today here at 7-Imp with some art from each one. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Kevin Henkes’s When Spring Comes<\/em>,
illustrated by Laura Dronzek
(coming in February from Greenwillow):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“And Spring will call out the pussy willows and new kittens, too.”<\/em>
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The opening endpapers<\/em>
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From Marilyn Singer’s Echo Echo<\/em>,
illustrated by Jos\u00e9e Masse
(coming in February from Dial):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From “Pandora and the Box”<\/em>
(Click image to read poem and see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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From “Narcissus and Echo”<\/em>
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From Helen Frost’s Among a Thousand Fireflies<\/em>,
illustrated by Rick Lieder
(coming in March from Candlewick):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Eleven. \/ Twenty. \/ Hundreds. \/ Thousands. \/ Countless bright \/ flashes.
How will she find \/ one firefly \/ among so many?”<\/em>
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From Shana Corey’s The Secret Subway<\/em>,
illustrated by Red Nose Studio
(coming in March from Schwartz & Wade):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“From politicians to peddlers, street sweepers to scientists, everyone had ideas. ‘Why not make a moving street, so we can get wherever we want just by standing still?'”<\/em>
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“Then one day, high above it all, a man named Alfred Ely Beach
stared down at the traffic and had an idea of his own. …”<\/em><\/center>
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From Ame Dyckman’s Horrible Bear!<\/em>,
illustrated by Zachariah OHora
(coming in April from Little, Brown):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Mara Rockliff’s
Anything But Ordinary Addie<\/em>,
illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
(coming in April from Candlewick):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Addie never wanted to be ordinary.”<\/em>
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From Sherman Alexie’s Thunder Boy Jr.<\/em>,
illustrated by Yuyi Morales
(coming in May from Little, Brown):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“I dream of traveling the world …”<\/em>
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From Diana Murray’s City Shapes<\/em>,
illustrated by Bryan Collier
(coming in June from Little, Brown):<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Some SHAPES in the city are … CIRCLES, so round.”<\/em>
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“At sunset the city is softly aglow \/ as chitchatting crowds hustle-bustle below, \/ when off in the distance a melody hums. \/ It’s hard not to follow the sound of the drums.”<\/em>
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AMONG A THOUSAND FIREFLIES. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Helen Frost. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Rick Lieder. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n

ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY ADDIE. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Mara Rockliff. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Iacopo Bruno. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/p>\n

CITY SHAPES. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Diana Murray. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Bryan Collier. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Little, Brown, New York. <\/p>\n

ECHO ECHO: REVERSO POEMS ABOUT GREEK MYTHS. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Marilyn Singer. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Jos\u00e9e Masse. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York. <\/p>\n

HORRIBLE BEAR! Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Ame Dyckman. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Zachariah OHora. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Little, Brown, New York. <\/p>\n

THE SECRET SUBWAY. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Shana Corey. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Red Nose Studio. Published by Schwartz & Wade Books, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Shana Corey. <\/p>\n

THUNDER BOY JR. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Sherman Alexie. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Yuyi Morales. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Little, Brown, New York. <\/p>\n

WHEN SPRING COMES. Text copyright \u00a9 2016 by Kevin Henkes. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Laura Dronzek. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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