{"id":4315,"date":"2017-04-07T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2017-04-07T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:06:36","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-rebecca-bond-marc-boutavantemily-hughes-and-nancy-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4315","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Rebecca Bond, Marc Boutavant,
Emily Hughes, and Nancy Meyers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“… They danced around the kitchen.”
— From Laurel Snyder’s<\/em> Charlie & Mouse,
illustrated by Emily Hughes<\/em><\/center>
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— From Dori Hillestad Butler’s <\/em>King & Kayla
and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats,
illustrated by Nancy Meyers<\/em><\/center>
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“Pig dreamed she was flying with Goose. …”
— From Rebecca Bond’s
<\/em>Pig & Goose and the First Day of Spring
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— From Patricia MacLachlan’s <\/em>Barkus,
illustrated by Marc Boutavant<\/em>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Jacques Goldstyn’s Bertolt<\/em>. You don’t want to miss this book. My thoughts are here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about some new easy readers — Rebecca Bond’s<\/a><\/strong> Pig & Goose and the First Day of Spring<\/em> (Charlesbridge, March 2017); Laurel Sndyer’s<\/a><\/strong> Charlie & Mouse (Chronicle, April 2017), illustrated by Emily Hughes<\/a><\/strong>; Patricia MacLachlan’s<\/a><\/strong> Barkus<\/em> (Chronicle), illustrated by Marc Boutavant<\/a><\/strong> and coming this June; and Dori Hillestad Butler’s<\/a><\/strong> King & Kayla<\/em> series, illustrated by Nancy Meyers<\/a><\/strong> (Peachtree). <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Charlie & Mouse<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“‘Hurrah!’ shouted Charlie. ‘Soon we will be at the party.”
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From Pig & Goose
and the First Day of Spring<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“It was spring at last. Pig was in a good mood. …”
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“‘Goose,’ said Pig, ‘spring is the best season.'”
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From Barkus<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Soon it was nighttime. …”<\/em>
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“‘Now I will tell you the story of a boy named Hansel and a girl named Gretel
who meet a witch,’ I began. Barkus whined.”<\/em>
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From the King & Kayla<\/em> series:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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BARKUS. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Patricia MacLachlan. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Marc Coutavant and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE & MOUSE. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Laurel Snyder. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Emily Hughes and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

All the KING & KAYLA images are copyright \u00a9 2017 by Dori Hillestad Butler and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Nancy Meyers. Images reproduced by permission of the publisher, Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta.<\/p>\n

PIG & GOOSE AND THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Rebecca Bond. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“… They danced around the kitchen.”— From Laurel Snyder’s Charlie & Mouse,illustrated by Emily Hughes   — From Dori Hillestad Butler’s King & Kaylaand the Case of the Missing Dog Treats,illustrated by Nancy Meyers   “Pig dreamed she was flying with Goose. …”— From Rebecca Bond’sPig & Goose and the First Day of Spring(Click to […]<\/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-4315","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\/4315","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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}