{"id":4568,"date":"2018-02-23T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:30:15","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-ashley-crowley-and-lucy-ruth-cummins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4568","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Ashley Crowley and Lucy Ruth Cummins"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“‘On the night of the blue moon, anything can happen,’ said the boy.”
— From Sara O’Leary’s <\/em>The Boy and the Blue Moon,
illustrated by Ashley Crowley<\/em><\/center>
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“This is not<\/u> a valentine, since it’s got sharper edges than dainty old lace.”
— From Carter Higgins’ <\/em>This Is Not a Valentine, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins<\/em>
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got some brand-new board books. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about some picture book valentines. I’m following up with art today from Carter Higgins’<\/a><\/strong> This Is Not a Valentine<\/em> (Chronicle, December 2017), illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins<\/a><\/strong>, and Sara O’Leary’s<\/a><\/strong> The Boy and the Blue Moon<\/em> (Godwin Books\/Henry Holt, February 2018), illustrated by Ashley Crowley<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From The Boy and the Blue Moon<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“On the night of the blue moon, a boy and his cat went for a walk. Inside their house the light was warm and yellow, but outside it was blue and magical.”<\/em>
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“‘On the night of the blue moon,
anything can happen,’ said the boy.”<\/em>
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“A lake appeared where there’d never been a lake before. It was deep and blue, a very deep, deep blue. The waves made a little lapping sound on the shore that was somehow part of the same song they boy had been hearing since he’d left the house.”<\/em>
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From This Is Not a Valentine<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“This is not<\/u> a valentine, since those come with buckets of roses and bushels of tulips that smell like grannies fresh out of the garden.”<\/em>
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“This is not<\/u> a valentine,
since sugared hearts and suckers give you cavities and bellyaches.”<\/em>
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THE BOY AND THE BLUE MOON. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Sara O’Leary. Illustrations \u00a9 2018 by Ashley Crowley and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Godwin Books\/Henry Holt, New York.<\/p>\n

THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Carter Higgins. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Lucy Ruth Cummins and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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