{"id":4076,"date":"2016-06-10T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:14:47","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-yasmeen-ismail-and-qin-leng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Yasmeen Ismail and Qin Leng"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“… but I’m sweet <\/em>and sour, not a little flower!”
— From Yasmeen Ismail’s <\/em>I’m a Girl!
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“‘One of my dads is tall and one is short. They both give good hugs.'”
— From Sara O’Leary’s <\/em>A Family Is a Family Is a Family, illustrated by Qin Leng
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Today over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got two new picture books that play with shape, line, color, and space in smart ways. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, since I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Yasmeen Ismail’s<\/a><\/strong> I’m a Girl!<\/em> (Bloomsbury, June 2016) and Sara O’Leary’s<\/a><\/strong> A Family Is a Family Is a Family<\/em> (Groundwood, September 2016), illustrated by Qin Leng<\/a><\/strong>, I’m following up with art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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From A Family Is a Family Is a Family<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“We were talking about families at school. The teacher asked us what we thought made our family special. I went last because I wasn’t sure what to say.
My family is not like everybody else’s.”<\/em>
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“‘My mom says that before I was born I grew in her heart.'”<\/em>
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From I’m a Girl!<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“I’m supposed to be <\/em>nice … all sugar and spice …”<\/em>
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“Just watch me go—always <\/em>fast, never s l o w. I’m a girl! I’m a girl …”<\/em>
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A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Sara O’Leary. Illustrations \u00a9 2016 by Qin Leng. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Canada. <\/p>\n

I’M A GIRL! Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Yasmeen Ismail. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“… but I’m sweet and sour, not a little flower!”— From Yasmeen Ismail’s I’m a Girl!(Click to enlarge spread)   “‘One of my dads is tall and one is short. They both give good hugs.’”— From Sara O’Leary’s A Family Is a Family Is a Family, illustrated by Qin Leng(Click to enlarge spread)   Today […]<\/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-4076","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\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}