{"id":4049,"date":"2016-05-06T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2016-05-06T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:10:36","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringirene-dickson-emily-gravett-and-kazue-takahashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Irene Dickson, Emily Gravett, and Kazue Takahashi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From <\/em>Kuma-Kuma Chan’s Home:
“I walk into his home.
It smells slightly of bear.”<\/em>
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— From <\/em>Bear & Hare\u2014Where\u2019s Bear?:
“There!”<\/em>
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— From <\/em>Blocks:
Note: The text here is different than it appears in the book.<\/em>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got some new children’s lit novels on the mind. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week (here<\/a><\/strong>), I wrote about Kazue Takahashi’s Kuma-Kuma Chan’s Home<\/em> (Museyon), originally released in 2001 in Japan but on U.S. shelves this month; Emily Gravett’s<\/a><\/strong> Bear & Hare\u2014Where\u2019s Bear?<\/em> (Simon & Schuster), originally released two years ago but also on U.S. shelves, as of last month; and Irene Dickson’s<\/a><\/strong> Blocks<\/em> (Candlewick, May 2016). <\/p>\n

I’ve got some art from each book today. Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Irene Dickson’s
Blocks<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Note: The text here is different than it appears in the book.<\/em>
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From Emily Gravett’s
Bear & Hare\u2014Where\u2019s Bear?<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Oh, Bear!”<\/em>
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“Maybe Hare should try hiding instead?
Where’s Hare?”<\/em>
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From Kazue Takahashi’s
Kuma-Kuma Chan’s Home<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“‘Welcome! Nice to see you!'”<\/em>
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“At first Kuma-Kuma Chan and I
can’t think of much to talk about.”<\/em>
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“Grooms himself . . .”<\/em>
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“He always cooks a salmon dish.
(I think it’s his favorite.)”<\/em>
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“After the meal,
we watch TV and drink hot milk.”<\/em>
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BEAR & HARE\u2014WHERE’S BEAR? Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Emily Gravett. First US edition 2016. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

BLOCKS. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Irene Dickson. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

KUMA-KUMA CHAN’S HOME. Copyright \u00a9 2001 by Kazue Takahashi. Originally published in Japan in 2001. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Museyon Inc., New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Kuma-Kuma Chan’s Home:“I walk into his home.It smells slightly of bear.”(Click to enlarge)   — From Bear & Hare\u2014Where\u2019s Bear?:“There!”(Click to enlarge)   — From Blocks:Note: The text here is different than it appears in the book.(Click to enlarge)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got some new children’s lit novels on the […]<\/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-4049","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\/4049","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=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}