{"id":4042,"date":"2016-04-29T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2016-04-29T05:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:27:01","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-bethan-woollvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Bethan Woollvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread11use.JPG\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThis morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about three new engaging picture books for the preschool set. That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/preschool-pearls\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/little-red\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethanwoollvin.com\/\">Bethan Woollvin&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Little Red<\/em> (Peachtree, April 2016), and I&#8217;m following up today with some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread4.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread4small.JPG\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;And he made a plan.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread6.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread6small.JPG\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;Which was unlucky for Grandma.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread9.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/LittleRed_spread9small.JPG\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;&#8216;Hello, Grandma,&#8217; Little Red said, though she wasn&#8217;t fooled for a minute. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/04\/Little Red US jacketuse.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>LITTLE RED. Text and illustrations \u00a9 2016 by Bethan Woollvin. First United States version published in 2016 by Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This morning over at Kirkus, I write about three new engaging picture books for the preschool set. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Bethan Woollvin&#8217;s Little Red (Peachtree, April 2016), and I&#8217;m following up today with some spreads from the book. Enjoy!<\/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-4042","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\/4042","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=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}