{"id":4374,"date":"2017-06-16T07:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2017-06-16T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:17:42","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-whati-did-last-week-featuring-laura-carlin-and-bob-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What
I Did Last Week, Featuring Laura Carlin and Bob Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Bob Graham’s <\/em>Home in the Rain<\/center>
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“Just one thing reminded me of home — of sunlight, fountains, and the
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— From Nicola Davies’s <\/em>King of the Sky, illustrated by Laura Carlin<\/em>
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Over at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got Things That Go Vroom on the mind. <\/p>\n

That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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I’m following up today with a bit of art from the books in last week’s column (here<\/a><\/strong>), Nicola Davies’s<\/a><\/strong> King of the Sky<\/em> (Candlewick, May 2017), illustrated by Laura Carlin<\/a><\/strong>, and Bob Graham’s<\/a><\/strong> Home in the Rain<\/em> (Candlewick, June 2017). <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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From King of the Sky<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Home in the Rain<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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HOME IN THE RAIN. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Blackbird Design Pty. Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/p>\n

KING OF THE SKY. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Nicola Davies. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Laura Carlin. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Bob Graham’s Home in the Rain   “Just one thing reminded me of home — of sunlight, fountains, and thevanilla smell of ice cream in my Nonna’s gelateria. …”— From Nicola Davies’s King of the Sky, illustrated by Laura Carlin(Click to enlarge spread)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got Things That Go […]<\/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-4374","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\/4374","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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}