{"id":4384,"date":"2017-06-30T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2017-06-30T07:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:23:03","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-didlast-week-featuring-jacqueline-ayer-and-lizi-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Jacqueline Ayer and Lizi Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“When Miss Moon showed the villagers her tree, they said, ‘Oh well, of course—those are the old man’s paper flowers on a stick. You can’t grow a tree from a bead!'”
— From Jacqueline Ayer’s <\/em>The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand
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— From Lizi Boyd’s <\/em>I Wrote You a Note
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\nThis week over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got lazy summer (re)reading on the mind. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Jacqueline Ayer’s<\/a><\/strong> The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand<\/em> (Enchanted Lion, June 2017) and Lizi Boyd’s<\/a><\/strong> I Wrote You a Note<\/em> (Chronicle, June 2017). <\/p>\n

I’m following up with some art today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From I Wrote You a Note<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Spider found the note. He thought it was a bridge. He crossed the stream.
Eight skinny spider legs all stayed dry. I wrote you a note. Did you find it?”<\/em>
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“Dragonfly found the note. She thought it was a little napping tent. When she woke up, she saw Goat. But Dragonfly was too busy to talk, so she darted off.”<\/em>
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From The Paper-Flower Tree<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“‘Where are you going, grandfather?’
Miss Moon said to the stranger as he came closer. …”<\/em>
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“Miss Moon planted her paper-flower seed deep in the earth. …”<\/em>
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“That night, under the enormous night sky, the dancers and clowns with chalk-white faces, dressed in silks and crowns and in raggle-taggle-baggy gowns,
crowded on the little stage.”<\/em>
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“Early in the morning, Miss Moon was awakened
by the familiar smell of the cooking fire. …”<\/em>
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I WROTE YOU A NOTE. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Lizi Boyd. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

THE PAPER-FLOWER TREE: A TALE FROM THAILAND. Copyright \u00a9 1959 by Jacqueline Ayer. First Reprint Edition published in 2017 by Enchanted Lion Books. Illustrations reproduced by their permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When Miss Moon showed the villagers her tree, they said, ‘Oh well, of course—those are the old man’s paper flowers on a stick. You can’t grow a tree from a bead!’”— From Jacqueline Ayer’s The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand(Click to enlarge spread)   — From Lizi Boyd’s I Wrote You a Note(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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4384","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\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}