{"id":4085,"date":"2016-06-24T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2016-06-24T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:28:48","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-christian-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4085","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Christian Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“After lunch the kindergarten kids learned about shapes. ‘A rectangle has four sides,’ said the teacher. ‘One, two, three, four. And a square has four sides, too. In fact, a square is actually a special kind of rectangle!’
‘Wow,’ said the school. ‘I did <\/em>not know that.'”<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got Come Home, Angus<\/em> and contemporary parenting on the mind. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Adam Rex’s<\/a><\/strong> School’s First Day of School<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, June 2016), illustrated by Christian Robinson<\/a><\/strong>. I’ve got some spreads from the book today. <\/p>\n

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“Then they came, the children did, and there were more of them
than the school could possibly have imagined.”<\/em>
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SCHOOL’S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Adam Rex. Illustrations \u00a9 2016 by Christian Robinson and reproduced here by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook Press, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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