{"id":4129,"date":"2016-08-26T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2016-08-26T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:24:37","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-didlast-week-featuring-jeffrey-brown-ben-hatkeeric-orchard-raina-telgemeier-and-oyvind-torseter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4129","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Jeffrey Brown, Ben Hatke,
Eric Orchard, Raina Telgemeier, and \u00d8yvind Torseter"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Eric Orchard’s <\/em>Bera the One-Headed Troll<\/center>
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— From Jeffrey Brown’s <\/em>Lucy & Andy Neanderthal<\/center>
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“Whoa.”
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— From Ben Hatke’s <\/em>Mighty Jack
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— From \u00d8yvind Torseter’s <\/em>The Heartless Troll<\/center><\/center>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got two very funny picture books. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. I’ll have art from each book here at 7-Imp next week. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote a graphic-novel round-up here<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I’ve got a bit of art from each book — Eric Orchard’s<\/a><\/strong> Bera the One-Headed Troll<\/em> (First Second, August 2016); Raina Telgemeier’s<\/a><\/strong> Ghosts<\/em> (Scholastic, September 2016); Jeffrey Brown\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Lucy & Andy Neanderthal<\/em> (Crown, August 2016); \u00d8yvind Torseter’s<\/a><\/strong> The Heartless Troll<\/em> (Enchanted Lion, September 2016); and Ben Hatke’s<\/a><\/strong> Mighty Jack<\/em> (First Second, September 2016); <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Mighty Jack<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From The Heartless Troll<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Dear friends, might you help me out of this fix?”<\/em>
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“It’s probably best if I stay here to keep watch. …”<\/em>
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“It’s probably best if I stay here to keep watch. …”<\/em>
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” … The door into the mountain was open, so Prince Fred went in.”<\/em>
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From Ghosts<\/em>
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From Bera the One-Headed Troll<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Lucy & Andy Neanderthal<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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BERA THE ONE-HEADED TROLL. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Eric Orchard. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, First Second, New York. <\/p>\n

Illustrations from GHOSTS \u00a9 2016 by Raina Telgemeier and used with permission from Graphix\/Scholastic.<\/p>\n

THE HEARTLESS TROLL. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Cappelen Damm AS, Norway. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Kari Dickson for the English-language translation. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Enchanted Lion Books, New York. <\/p>\n

LUCY & ANDY NEANDERTHAL. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Jeffrey Brown. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers, New York. <\/p>\n

MIGHTY JACK. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Ben Hatke. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, First Second, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Eric Orchard’s Bera the One-Headed Troll   — From Jeffrey Brown’s Lucy & Andy Neanderthal   “Whoa.”— From Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts(Click to enlarge)   — From Ben Hatke’s Mighty Jack(Click to enlarge)   — From \u00d8yvind Torseter’s The Heartless Troll   This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got two very funny picture books. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}