{"id":4001,"date":"2016-02-26T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2016-02-25T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:56:47","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-eliza-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4001","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Eliza Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“You wanna see my tattoos?
Why, little man, you always want to see my tattoos. Here we go then.”<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a wonderful, new picture book, a superb blend of nonfiction and poetry. That will be here<\/a><\/strong> soon. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Alison McGhee’s<\/a><\/strong> Tell Me a Tattoo Story<\/em> (Chronicle, April 2016), illustrated by Eliza Wheeler<\/a><\/strong>. Today I have some art from the book, as well as some preliminary images from Eliza. <\/p>\n

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Storyboards<\/em>
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Sketch<\/em>
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Final art: “This one, well, this one’s from my favorite book
that my mom used to read to me. …”<\/em>
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Final art: “This one? This one says ‘Be kind.’
That’s something my dad used to tell me. …”<\/em>
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TELL ME A TATTOO STORY. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Alison McGhee. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Eliza Wheeler. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco. Preliminary images used by permission of Eliza Wheeler.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You wanna see my tattoos?Why, little man, you always want to see my tattoos. Here we go then.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got a wonderful, new picture book, a superb blend of nonfiction and poetry. That will be here soon. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Alison […]<\/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-4001","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\/4001","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=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}