{"id":4599,"date":"2018-04-06T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2018-04-06T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:59:27","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringsarah-jacoby-braden-lamb-and-shelli-paroline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Sarah Jacoby, Braden Lamb, and Shelli Paroline"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Ian Lendler’s <\/em>One Day a Dot,
illustrated by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb<\/em><\/center>
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“Can we stay longer?”<\/em>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got two Spring reads on the mind. <\/p>\n

That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Sarah Jacoby’s<\/a><\/strong> Forever or a Day<\/em> (Chronicle, March 2018), as well as Ian Lendler’s<\/a><\/strong> One Day a Dot<\/em>, illustrated by Shelli Paroline<\/a><\/strong> and Braden Lamb<\/a><\/strong> (First Second, April 2018). I’m following up with art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Forever or a Day<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Is this what forever feels like?”
— From Sarah Jacoby’s <\/em>Forever or a Day
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“Sometimes it helps the bus arrive.
Sometimes it doesn’t.”<\/em>
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From One Day a Dot<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“And it was so excited to be there that it burst.”<\/em>
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“… The light made even more dots in colors never seen before. …”<\/em>
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FOREVER OR A DAY. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Sarah Jacoby. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

ONE DAY A DOT. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Ian Lendler. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb and used by permission of the publisher, First Second, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Ian Lendler’s One Day a Dot,illustrated by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb   “Can we stay longer?”(Click to enlarge spread)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got two Spring reads on the mind. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Sarah Jacoby’s Forever or a Day (Chronicle, March […]<\/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-4599","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\/4599","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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}