{"id":4241,"date":"2017-01-13T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:25:03","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-brian-pinkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
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Today here at 7-Imp, I’ve got some of Brian Pinkney’s<\/a><\/strong> illustrations from Patricia C. McKissack’s<\/a><\/strong> Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhood<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade, January 2016) — as a follow-up to last week’s column<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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LET’S CLAP, JUMP, SING & SHOUT; DANCE, SPIN & TURN IT OUT! GAMES, SONGS, & STORIES FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Patricia C. McKissack. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Brian Pinkney and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got Nikki Grimes’ excellent new poetry collection. That is here. * * * Today here at 7-Imp, I’ve got some of Brian Pinkney’s illustrations from Patricia C. McKissack’s Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! Games, Songs & Stories from an African American […]<\/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-4241","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\/4241","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=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}