{"id":4410,"date":"2017-08-04T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2017-08-04T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:50:24","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-eva-lindstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Eva Lindstr\u00f6m"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got new August picture books that celebrate creative thinkers and problem-solvers and out-of-the-box thinkers of many types. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Eva Lindstr\u00f6m’s<\/a><\/strong> My Dog Mouse<\/em> (Gecko, August 2017), originally published in New Zealand in 2015 and translated by Julia Marshall. Today here at 7-Imp, I have some art from the book. (Some of these colors are a bit off, FYI. They’re slightly brighter than they appear in the book.) <\/p>\n

Until Sunday …<\/p>\n


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“‘Can I take Mouse for a walk?’ I ask, and I’m always allowed. We set off, very slowly. Mouse walks at a snail’s pace. He stops at lampposts and fences and sniffs for a long time. Sometimes he looks up at me and then I usually say something. I maybe say something like ‘old man’ in a very nice voice, not my usual one.”<\/em>
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“He’s old and fat with ears as thin as pancakes. His walk is a kind of waddle and
he’s always pleased to see me.”<\/em>
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“At the park, I take off his collar. We sit there on the grass and eat our picnic.
It’s the usual, and Mouse helps himself to mine, too,
while I look carefully at a particular cloud.”<\/em>
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“It starts to blow. We walk into the wind and we seem to be standing still but I think we’re moving. All sorts of things are flying around. Mouse’s ears flap like flags and
he shuts his eyes to keep out the sand. I hold tight to the leash.”<\/em>
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“Did it go well? That’s what Mouse’s owner asks. I say that it went very, very well.
She says thank you and takes the leash and Mouse follows her inside.
I stand there till I can’t see him anymore.”<\/em>
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MY DOG MOUSE. Text and illustrations \u00a9 Eva Lindstr\u00f6m 2016. English language edition \u00a9 Gecko Press Ltd 2017. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got new August picture books that celebrate creative thinkers and problem-solvers and out-of-the-box thinkers of many types. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Eva Lindstr\u00f6m’s My Dog Mouse (Gecko, August 2017), originally published in New Zealand in 2015 and translated by Julia […]<\/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-4410","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\/4410","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=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}