{"id":4537,"date":"2018-01-12T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:21:57","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringsophie-blackall-tatyana-fazlalizadehqin-leng-sara-palaciosleuyen-pham-and-melissa-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4537","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Sophie Blackall, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh,
Qin Leng, Sara Palacios,
LeUyen Pham, and Melissa Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“… This is the Earth that Lapp\u00e9 dreamed.”
— Melissa Sweet’s illustration of Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 from Susan Hood’s
<\/em>Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World<\/center>
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“She turned the guitar upside down and played it backwards.
It was kind of like brushing your teeth with your foot. …”
— From Laura Veirs’ <\/em>Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten,
illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh<\/em>
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the greatest writers. But it might surprise you to know that Jane lived a simple life.
She wasn’t rich or even very famous in her time.”
— From Deborah Hopkinson’s <\/em>Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen,
illustrated by Qin Leng<\/em><\/center>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I write about Andrea Davis Pinkney’s<\/a><\/strong> and Brian Pinkney’s<\/a><\/strong> Martin Rising: Requiem for a King<\/em>. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about three new picture books featuring some remarkably talented and fearless women \u2014 Susan Hood’s<\/a><\/strong> Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World<\/em> (Harper, January 2018), illustrated by 13 different artists; Deborah Hopkinson’s<\/a><\/strong> Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, January 2018), illustrated by Qin Leng<\/a><\/strong>; and Laura Veirs’<\/a><\/strong> Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten<\/em> (Chronicle, January 2018), illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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

Enjoy!
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From Libba<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Libba Cotten heard music everywhere. …”<\/em>
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“All day and night she played that guitar! …”<\/em>
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“… Thousands of people sang along when she played ‘Freight Train.’
And now, millions of people know her music.”<\/em>
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From Shaking Things Up<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“… Puerto Rican puppeteer \/ Querida \/ Role model \/ Spanish ‘story seed’ sower …”
Sara Palacios’<\/a><\/strong> illustration of Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/em>
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“… the sisterhood survives!”
Sophie Blackall’s<\/a><\/strong> illustration of Jacqueline Nearne<\/em>
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“This is the Earth that Lapp\u00e9 dreamed,
the woman who wrote, ‘Eat more greens’ …”
Melissa Sweet’s<\/a><\/strong> illustration for the Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 spread<\/em>
(Click to read poem and see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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“Science, \/ my friend, I grew up with you. …”
LeUyen Pham’s<\/a><\/strong> illustration of Angela Zhang<\/em>
(Click to read poem and see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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From Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Even as a young girl, Jane was a reader who knew exactly what she liked,
and precisely what she didn’t. …”<\/em>
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“Now, two hundred years later, I wonder if Jane would be surprised to learn that her books are still read and loved by people all over the world?
Maybe. Then again, maybe not.”<\/em>
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LIBBA: THE MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL LIFE OF ELIZABETH COTTEN. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Laura Veirs. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

ORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY JANE AUSTEN. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Deborah Hopkinson. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Qin Leng and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer + Bray\/HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

SHAKING THINGS UP: 14 YOUNG WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Susan Hood. Illustrations here are copyright \u00a9 2018 by Sophie Blackall, \u00a9 2018 by Sara Palacios, \u00a9 2018 by LeUyen Pham, and \u00a9 2018 by Melissa Sweet. Used by permission of the publisher, Harper, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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