{"id":4585,"date":"2018-03-16T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:11:17","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-didlast-week-featuring-jillian-tamaki-and-geraldo-valerio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Jillian Tamaki and Geraldo Val\u00e9rio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“But when I hold the water in my hands, it’s as clear as glass.
I toss it up in the air to make diamonds.”
— From Jillian Tamaki’s <\/em>They Say Blue
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— From Geraldo Val\u00e9rio’s <\/em>Blue Rider
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got a Swedish picture book import. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Jillian Tamaki’s<\/a><\/strong> They Say Blue<\/em> (Abrams, March 2018), as well as Geraldo Val\u00e9rio’s<\/a><\/strong> Blue Rider<\/em> (Groundwood, March 2018). I’m following up today with art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From They Say Blue<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“… Which is true today! They say the sea is blue, too.
It certainly looks like it from here.”<\/em>
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“I stretch to the sky with my fingers open wide. I sprouted!”<\/em>
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From Blue Rider<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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THEY SAY BLUE. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 Jillian Tamaki. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams, New York. <\/p>\n

BLUE RIDER. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Geraldo Val\u00e9rio. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood, Toronto.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“But when I hold the water in my hands, it’s as clear as glass.I toss it up in the air to make diamonds.”— From Jillian Tamaki’s They Say Blue(Click to enlarge spread)   — From Geraldo Val\u00e9rio’s Blue Rider(Click to enlarge spread)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got a Swedish picture book import. That […]<\/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-4585","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\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}