{"id":4015,"date":"2016-03-18T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2016-03-18T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:12:06","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-julie-morstad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Julie Morstad"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“soon we will go to the beach \/ where we will swim \/
and eat plums and peanut butter sandwiches …”<\/em><\/center>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a small picture book round-up. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Julie Fogliano’s<\/a><\/strong> first poetry collection, When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, March 2016), illustrated by Julie Morstad<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I’m following up with some paintings from the book, which Julie M. sent. They are sans text. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“from a snow-covered tree
one bird singing …”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“… there i will be
and you will find me
swimming”<\/em>
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“the ocean can carry
with outstretched arms, palms up and pushing forward,
treasure to the shore …”<\/em>
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“if you could take a bite
out of the middle of this morning …”<\/em>
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“i like it here
on this side of winter …”<\/em>
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“i’m too tired to think about trees
or the way the wind moves through them …”<\/em>
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“… the green that stays
is cold and alone
in a forest
slightly bored …”<\/em>
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“… beautiful outweighs the snow”<\/em>
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“once there was a snowstorm …”<\/em>
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WHEN GREEN BECOMES TOMATOES: POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Julie Fogliano. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2016 by Julie Morstad. Published by Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook Press. Illustrations here used by permission of Julie Morstad.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“soon we will go to the beach \/ where we will swim \/and eat plums and peanut butter sandwiches …”   This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got a small picture book round-up. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Julie Fogliano’s first poetry collection, When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems […]<\/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-4015","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\/4015","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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}