{"id":3969,"date":"2016-01-15T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:15:56","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-jessica-ahlberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jessica Ahlberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Oh!’ said Lucy. ‘I know where we are.'”<\/em>
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\nAbove is a spread from Jessica Ahlberg’s<\/a><\/strong> Fairy Tales for Mr. Barker: A Peek-Through Story<\/em> (Candlewick, March 2016), which I wrote about here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> last week. <\/p>\n

Today, I’ve got a look at Carole Boston Weatherford’s<\/a><\/strong> Freedom in Congo Square<\/em> (Little Bee Books, January 2016), illustrated by R. Gregory Christie<\/a><\/strong>. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Until Sunday … <\/p>\n

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FAIRY TALES FOR MR. BARKER. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Jessica Ahlberg. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Oh!’ said Lucy. ‘I know where we are.’”(Click to enlarge spread)   Above is a spread from Jessica Ahlberg’s Fairy Tales for Mr. Barker: A Peek-Through Story (Candlewick, March 2016), which I wrote about here at Kirkus last week. Today, I’ve got a look at Carole Boston Weatherford’s Freedom in Congo Square (Little Bee Books, […]<\/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-3969","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\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}