{"id":4248,"date":"2017-01-20T06:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2017-01-20T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:20:00","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringnikki-grimes-frank-morrison-brian-pinkney-james-ransome-shadra-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4248","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Nikki Grimes, Frank Morrison, Brian Pinkney,
James Ransome, & Shadra Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Illustration by Shadra Strickland<\/a><\/strong>: “Son, it is all too easy to let \/
this world’s bullies puncture your \/ pride …”<\/em>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got two new picture books that aren’t afraid to speak frankly to children. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Nikki Grimes’s<\/a><\/strong> One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance<\/em> (Bloomsbury, January 2017). Here today at 7-Imp, I’ve got a selection of illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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Illustration by James Ransome<\/a><\/strong>: “Less sure than desperate, \/ I dip my spoon \/
into the bowl of years, \/ stir till I reach the Renaissance \/
and find a few choice lines \/ to chew on …”<\/em>
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Illustration by Frank Morrison<\/a><\/strong>: “Dream-killers daily stalk the street you and I \/ travel, trying to trip us up, but we can give them the slip. …”<\/em>
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Illustration by Brian Pinkney<\/a><\/strong>: “One look, and we are neatly judged this \/ gang, these thugs, these dark delinquents in debt \/ to society. …”<\/em>
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Illustration by Nikki Grimes<\/a><\/strong>: “Ignore those fast-talking, know-nothing guys on \/
the avenue, describing you with the \/
twisted words self-hate taught them on the street.”<\/em>
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ONE LAST WORD: WISDOM FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Nikki Grimes. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration by Shadra Strickland: “Son, it is all too easy to let \/this world’s bullies puncture your \/ pride …”(Click to enlarge)   This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got two new picture books that aren’t afraid to speak frankly to children. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Nikki […]<\/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-4248","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\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}