{"id":4174,"date":"2016-10-14T05:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2016-10-14T05:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:32:38","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-mordicai-gerstein-and-klaas-verplancke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4174","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Mordicai Gerstein and Klaas Verplancke"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Klaas Verplancke’s <\/em>Margritte’s Apple<\/center>
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“The girl picked up her mandolin,
and as her fingers plucked and pressed the strings, she sang. …”
— From Mordicai Gerstein’s <\/em>The Sleeping Gypsy
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got the sweet and the surreal on the mind. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Mordicai Gerstein’s<\/a><\/strong> The Sleeping Gypsy<\/em> (Holiday House, October 2016) and Klaas Verplancke’s<\/a><\/strong> Magritte’s Apple<\/em> (MoMA, September 2016). I’m following up here today with some spreads from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Magritte’s Apple<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“… a painter of apples.”<\/em>
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“He was a painter of paintings.”<\/em>
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From The Sleeping Gypsy<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“‘You, Lion, stay just where you are and lift your tail a bit. …'”<\/em>
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MAGRITTE’S APPLE. Text and illustrations \u00a9 2016 Klaas Verplancke. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and \u00c9ditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE SLEEPING GYPSY. Text and illustrations \u00a9 2016 Mordicai Gerstein. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Holiday House, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Klaas Verplancke’s Margritte’s Apple   “The girl picked up her mandolin,and as her fingers plucked and pressed the strings, she sang. …”— From Mordicai Gerstein’s The Sleeping Gypsy(Click spread to enlarge)   This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got the sweet and the surreal on the mind. That link is here. * * […]<\/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-4174","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\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}