{"id":4549,"date":"2018-01-26T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2018-01-26T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:03:12","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-molly-bang-and-cori-doerrfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Molly Bang and Cori Doerrfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Cori Doerrfeld’s <\/em>The Rabbit Listened<\/center>
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“‘I can’t do it,’ says Sophie. ‘Make your brain stronger,’ whispers Paula. ‘Just try.’
Paula gathers up a pile of square tiles. ‘Think hard, Sophie,’ whispers Andrew.
He takes a sheet of graph paper. Sophie sits and stares.
And stares. Maybe she can draw them!”
— From Molly Bang’s <\/em>When Sophie Thinks She Can’t …<\/center>
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\nToday at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got three brand-new picture books for the toddler\/preschool set, books also great for your story time stack. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about little children and big emotions — Molly Bang’s<\/a><\/strong> When Sophie Thinks She Can’t …<\/em> (Blue Sky\/Scholastic, January 2018) and Cori Doerrfeld’s<\/a><\/strong> The Rabbit Listened<\/em> (Dial, February 2018). I’m following up today with art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From The Rabbit Listened<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“But then, out of nowhere . . .”<\/em>
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“In the quiet, Taylor didn’t even notice the rabbit. But it moved closer, and closer.
Until Taylor could feel its warm body.”<\/em>
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From When Sophie Thinks She Can’t …<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Sophie’s sister walks by. She moves the pieces, and suddenly they fit perfectly.
‘Too bad you’re not smart,’ says her sister. And she walks away.”<\/em>
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“‘You’ve worked hard and gotten stuck. You’ve used the Most Important Word: YET.
You’ve tried and tried again, helped each other — and solved it!
Those brains of yours have certainly gotten stronger!'”<\/em>
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THE RABBIT LISTENED. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Cori Doerrfeld. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York. <\/p>\n

Illustrations from WHEN SOPHIE THINKS SHE CAN’T … written by Molly Bang. Art \u00a9 2018 by Molly Bang. Used with permission from The Blue Sky Press \/ Scholastic.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Cori Doerrfeld’s The Rabbit Listened   “‘I can’t do it,’ says Sophie. ‘Make your brain stronger,’ whispers Paula. ‘Just try.’Paula gathers up a pile of square tiles. ‘Think hard, Sophie,’ whispers Andrew.He takes a sheet of graph paper. Sophie sits and stares.And stares. Maybe she can draw them!”— From Molly Bang’s When Sophie […]<\/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-4549","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\/4549","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=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}