{"id":4100,"date":"2016-07-10T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2016-07-09T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:47:42","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-491-featuring-antoinette-portis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #491: Featuring Antoinette Portis"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve got a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Antoinette Portis’s<\/a><\/strong> entertaining new picture book, Best Frints in the Whole Univers<\/em>e (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook Press, July 2016). <\/p>\n

The review is here<\/a><\/strong>. Now, normally I’d share some spreads from the book here, but Antoinette actually already<\/em> shared some spreads from this one here at 7-Imp. When she visited in August of last year to talk about Wait<\/em>, she talked about Best Frints<\/em> and shared a handful of spreads. So, if you want to check those out, they are here in this post<\/a><\/strong> — towards the bottom. <\/p>\n

It was fun to give you all a sneak-peek of Best Frints<\/em> last year, but it’s even better to see it on shelves now.<\/p>\n

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Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n

* * * Jules’ Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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It’s been a rough week here in the United States, hasn’t it? It’s kind of hard to feel kicky during a sad week like the one we’ve had. I think the best thing I’ve seen has been the New Yorker<\/em> cover<\/strong><\/a> from Kadir Nelson<\/a><\/strong>. And what Fran\u00e7oise Mouly<\/a><\/strong> said about it on Facebook really spoke to me. (I hope it’s okay to quote it here.)<\/p>\n

We’re drowning in guns, mired in a nightmare we can’t seem to wake up from. A woman remains polite to a cop who has just shot her boyfriend; her four-year old tries to comfort her after the man dies; cops are targeted and shot at point blank by a crazed sniper; bystanders film another black man killed by police. It’s all so difficult, but I know I’m grateful for the simple truth of Kadir Nelson’s image on the cover of this week’s issue: A Day at the Beach–if only that could be the story right now.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what else to say. Except that I hope our country can heal. <\/p>\n

My family and I are still packing packing packing. We close on our new house in less than two weeks. This has certainly kept us busy. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve got a review over at BookPage of Antoinette Portis’s entertaining new picture book, Best Frints in the Whole Universe (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook Press, July 2016). The review is here. Now, normally I’d share some spreads from the book here, but Antoinette actually already shared some spreads from this one here at 7-Imp. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","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=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}