{"id":4452,"date":"2017-09-22T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:06:47","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-suzy-lee-and-kathryn-otoshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week,<br>Featuring Suzy Lee and Kathryn Otoshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8212; From Kathryn Otoshi&#8217;s <\/em>Draw the Line<br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8212; From Suzy Lee&#8217;s <\/em>Lines<br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmahin.com\/\">Michael Mahin&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters<\/em> (Atheneum, September 2017), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4095\">Evan Turk<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/making-music-muddy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/fine-lines\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1410\">Suzy Lee&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Lines<\/em> (Chronicle, September 2017) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kokidsbooks.com\/kositeh.html\">Kathryn Otoshi&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Draw the Line<\/em> (Roaring Brook, October 2017). Here at 7-Imp today is some art from each book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=4>From <em>Lines<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines4large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines5large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Lines5small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/lines cover lee.JPG\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=4>From <em>Draw the Line<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line4large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Line4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Draw the Linecover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>DRAW THE LINE. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Kathryn Otoshi. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Roaring Brook Press, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LINES. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Suzy Lee. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; From Kathryn Otoshi&#8217;s Draw the Line(Click to enlarge spread) &nbsp; &#8212; From Suzy Lee&#8217;s Lines(Click to enlarge spread) &nbsp; Today over at Kirkus, I write about Michael Mahin&#8217;s Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters (Atheneum, September 2017), illustrated by Evan Turk. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here [&hellip;]<\/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-4452","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\/4452","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=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}