{"id":4215,"date":"2016-12-09T06:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2016-12-09T06:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:45:27","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-pluswhat-i-did-last-week-featuring-pirkko-liisa-surojegin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus
What I Did Last Week, Featuring Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got resistance on the mind. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Otto and the Secret Light of Christmas<\/em> (Floris, September 2016), written by Nora Surojegin and illustrated by Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin<\/a><\/strong>. Today, I have a few illustrations here from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“The pair sat warming their toes by the fire,
drinking tea and exchanging stories. …”<\/em><\/center>
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“Just then something moved. Otto was sure he’d
seen motion in the corner of his eye ….”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘These are snowshoes,’ said the lontti on the rock.
‘Try them! They let you walk easily on snow.'”<\/em><\/center>
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OTTO AND THE SECRET LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS. English version \u00a9 2016 by Floris Books. Text \u00a9 2010 Nora Surojegin and Kustannusosakeyhti\u00f6 Otava. Illustrations \u00a9 2010 Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin and Kustannusosakeyhti\u00f6 Otava. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got resistance on the mind. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Otto and the Secret Light of Christmas (Floris, September 2016), written by Nora Surojegin and illustrated by Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin. Today, I have a few illustrations here from the book. Enjoy.<\/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-4215","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\/4215","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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}