{"id":4070,"date":"2016-06-03T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:39:01","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-faith-ringgold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Faith Ringgold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We are ALL Americans,
Just the same.”<\/em>
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\nThis morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I have two new picture books (one will be on shelves in September) all about defying labels. That is here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Last week, I talked here<\/a><\/strong> with Faith Ringgold<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up today with two spreads (one above) from her new book, We Came to America<\/em> (Knopf, May 2016). <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“We came to America, Every color, race, and religion, From every country in the world. Some of us were already here Before the others came.”<\/em>
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WE CAME TO AMERICA. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Faith Ringgold. Illustrations published by permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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