{"id":4520,"date":"2017-12-22T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:16:06","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringchuck-groenink-yoko-maruyama-and-greg-pizzoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Chuck Groenink, Yoko Maruyama, and Greg Pizzoli"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“‘Excuse me, but I’ve lost my way. I’m cold and tired. May I please stay?’
Will says, ‘Yes, I’ll scooch a bit. There’s room for two \u2014 I’m sure we’ll fit.'”
— From Linda Ashman’s <\/em>William’s Winter Nap,
illustrated by Chuck Groenink<\/em><\/center>
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“I could only think of one<\/font><\/strong> person for the job \u2014 me!”
— From Yoko Maruyama’s <\/em>Little Santa<\/center>
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“On the FIFTH day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me . . .”
— From Greg Pizzoli’s <\/em>The Twelve Days of Christmas
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\nAmy Schwartz<\/a><\/strong> has a new picture book! I write about that over at Kirkus<\/em> today. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Linda Ashman’s<\/a><\/strong> William’s Winter Nap<\/em> (Disney-Hyperion, October 2017), illustrated by Chuck Groenink<\/a><\/strong>; Yoko Maruyama’s Little Santa<\/em> (Minedition, October 2017); and Greg Pizzoli’s<\/a><\/strong> The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em> (Disney-Hyperion, September 2017). I’m following up today with some art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Little Santa<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“This year when winter came, I wished upon the first star in the evening:
‘I want to spend Christmas Eve with my father this year.'”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
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“I rushed to put on my dad’s red coat and hat. No one makes Santa clothes in my size,
so my outfit looked pretty silly.”<\/em>
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“I wondered if there was some mistake, but they nudged me toward the chimney,
so I climbed down.”<\/em>
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“I just smiled.
My wish had come true already.”<\/em>
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From William’s Winter Nap<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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(Click first image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center>
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“The six climb in and curl up tight. They YAWN and say, ‘Good night.’<\/em>
‘Good night.'”
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From The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“A partridge in a pear tree.”<\/em>
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“On the TENTH day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . .”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread and read the text in its entirety)<\/center>
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LITTLE SANTA. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 Yoko Maruyama. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Minedition, Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Greg Pizzoli. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Disney-Hyperion, New York.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM’S WINTER NAP. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Linda Ashman. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Chuck Groenink and used by permission of the publisher, Disney-Hyperion, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Excuse me, but I’ve lost my way. I’m cold and tired. May I please stay?’Will says, ‘Yes, I’ll scooch a bit. There’s room for two \u2014 I’m sure we’ll fit.’”— From Linda Ashman’s William’s Winter Nap,illustrated by Chuck Groenink   “I could only think of one person for the job \u2014 me!”— From Yoko Maruyama’s […]<\/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-4520","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\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}