{"id":4515,"date":"2017-12-15T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2017-12-16T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:49:32","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-kady-macdonald-denton-and-susan-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Kady MacDonald Denton and Susan Gal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Thank you, Mouse. You are . . .’ Bear swallowed.
‘You are an excellent companion. …'”
— From Bonny Becker’s <\/em>A Christmas for Bear,
illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton<\/em>
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“On Christmas Eve in Sri Lanka, children come home from midnight mass
and hang their stockings on the tree. …”
— From M.E. Furman’s <\/em>A World of Cookies for Santa, illustrated by Susan Gal<\/em>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I have three more brand-new holiday picture books, because apparently this year I can’t get enough of them. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Bonny Becker’s<\/a><\/strong> A Christmas for Bear<\/em> (Candlewick, September 2017), illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton<\/a><\/strong>, and M.E. Furman’s A World of Cookies for Santa<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2017), illustrated by Susan Gal<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up with a bit of art today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!
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From A Christmas for Bear<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Bear paused and glanced over at Mouse.
Mouse took a mournful bite of his pickle. …”
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From A World of Cookies for Santa<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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A CHRISTMAS FOR BEAR. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Bonny Becker. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Kady MacDonald Denton. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n

A WORLD OF COOKIES FOR SANTA. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Mary Hampton. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Susan Gal. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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