{"id":4565,"date":"2018-02-16T09:34:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:13:13","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-marianna-coppo-and-john-himmelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Marianna Coppo and John Himmelman"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“I don’t go anywhere.
Everyone comes to me.”
— From Marianna Coppo’s <\/em>Petra<\/center>
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— From John Himmelman’s <\/em>Floaty<\/center>
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\nValentine’s Day might be over, but I’m extending the celebration this week with some books, old and new, 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 John Himmelman’s<\/a><\/strong> Floaty<\/em> (Henry Holt, January 2018) and an Italian import, Marianna Coppo’s<\/a><\/strong> Petra<\/em> (Tundra, February 2018). I’m following up today with art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Floaty<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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” … ‘There goes nutty Mr. Rasin,’ said Mrs. Stringle.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge and read full text)<\/center>
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From Petra<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Not the wind.”<\/em><\/center>
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(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center>
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“I’m an egg. A smooth and shiny egg.
I’m not any ordinary egg.
I am an egg of the world,
in a world of possibility.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge)<\/center>
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PETRA. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Marianna Coppo. Originally published in 2016 by Edizioni Lapis, Rome, Italy. This edition published in 2018 by Tundra Books. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher. <\/p>\n

FLOATY. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by John Himmelman. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Henry Holt and Company, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I don’t go anywhere.Everyone comes to me.”— From Marianna Coppo’s Petra   — From John Himmelman’s Floaty   Valentine’s Day might be over, but I’m extending the celebration this week with some books, old and new, over at Kirkus today. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about John Himmelman’s Floaty […]<\/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-4565","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\/4565","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=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}