{"id":4169,"date":"2016-10-07T06:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T12:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2016-10-07T06:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T12:40:58","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringkaren-lewis-tom-sullivan-and-jennifer-thermes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Karen Lewis, Tom Sullivan, and Jennifer Thermes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From Tom Sullivan’s <\/em>I Used to Be a Fish
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“After almost four years of exploring,
it was time to start the long voyage home. …”
— From Jennifer Thermes’ <\/em>Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure
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“This is our Grandmother Fish. …”
— From Jonathan Tweet’s <\/em>Grandmother Fish:
A Child’s First Book of Evolution, illustrated by Karen Lewis<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got Henri Rousseau, Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Mordicai Gerstein, and Klaas Verplancke on the mind. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about some new picture books about evolution (though one is more specifically about Charles Darwin) — Jonathan Tweet’s<\/a><\/strong> Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution<\/em> (Feiwel & Friends, September 2016), illustrated by Karen Lewis<\/a><\/strong>; Jennifer Thermes’<\/a><\/strong> Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure<\/em>; and Tom Sullivan’s<\/a><\/strong> I Used to Be a Fish<\/em>. <\/p>\n

I’ve got some spreads today from each book, and Tom and Jennifer also share some preliminary images (sketches and such). Let’s get to it, and I thank them for sharing. <\/p>\n


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From I Used to Be a Fish<\/em>
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Pictured above: Early sketches<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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From Charles Darwin’s
Around-the-World Adventure<\/em>
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Jennifer: “[These are] an early thumbnail layout and
rough color thumbnails for planning the overall colors …”<\/em>
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Jennifer: “An old and new version of one of the jungle\/map spreads,
where we decided to de-clutter and emphasize the jungle scene over the factoids (which were moved to the back matter).”<\/em>
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Jennifer: “The underwater scene sketch,
which didn’t change from the original dummy,”
followed by the final art<\/em>
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Final front endpapers<\/em>
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“The <\/em>Beagle zigzagged up and down the long coast of Chile,
while Charles took trips through the countryside, meeting the ship along the way.”<\/em>
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“He found his answer up, up, up —
in the rose-colored shadows and snowy peaks of the Andes Mountains.”<\/em>
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Jennifer: “Two work-in-progress details of the cover.
(I posted a lot of sneaky-peek details on Instagram while working on final art.)”<\/em>
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Final cover<\/em><\/center>
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From Grandmother Fish<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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CHARLES DARWIN’S AROUND-THE-WORLD ADVENTURE. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Jennifer Thermes. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York. Preliminary images used by permission of Jennifer Thermes.<\/em><\/p>\n

GRANDMOTHER FISH: A CHILD’S FIRST BOOK OF EVOLUTION. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Grandmother Fish, LLC, d\/b\/a Jonathan Tweet Studios. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Feiwel and Friends New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

I USED TO BE A FISH. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Tom Sullivan. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer + Bray, New York. Sketches used by permission of Tom Sullivan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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