{"id":4611,"date":"2018-04-20T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:43:37","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-catia-chien-and-olivier-tallec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4611","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring C\u00e1tia Chien and Olivier Tallec"},"content":{"rendered":"


 

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— From Thomas Scotto’s <\/em>Jerome By Heart,
illustrated by Olivier Tallec<\/em><\/center>
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“Turtle dreamed about a better home.
So he decided to make some renovations to his shell.”
— From Michelle Cuevas’s <\/em>The Town of Turtle, illustrated by C\u00e1tia Chien<\/em>
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\nThis morning at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a Belgian import.<\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Thomas Scotto’s<\/a><\/strong> Jerome By Heart<\/em> (Enchanted Lion, April 2018), illustrated by Olivier Tallec<\/a><\/strong>, as well as Michelle Cuevas’s<\/a><\/strong> The Town of Turtle<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2018), illustrated by C\u00e1tia Chien<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up today with art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From The Town of Turtle<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“After all that work, Turtle needed to take a long nap. He happened to be an especially deep sleeper. When Turtle slept, he slept the sleep of a broken pocket watch.
He dreamed he had friends who lived in the town he had built.”<\/em>
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“The wind moved into the trees,
laughter moved into the houses, and light moved into the dark.”<\/em>
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From Jerome By Heart<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“I’ve made up my mind. From now one, every day is for Jerome. Mornings are happy from the start! By lunch, we’ve laughed so hard our stomachs hurt. And by dinner,
I’ve stocked up enough of Jerome to last me the whole night. That’s important.”<\/em>
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“This morning at breakfast, I burst out: ‘I had the best dream last night! It was good in a Jerome kind of way.’ Dad stares at his shoelaces, like he doesn’t hear a word I’m saying. Mom digs through my backpack and sighs, ‘Eat your cereal, Raphael.'”<\/em>
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“I ransack my room because Jerome says he’ll go on vacation with me!
Maybe even to the highest peak of the Himalayas. Anytime.<\/em>
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JEROME BY HEART. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 2009 by Actes Sud. Copyright \u00a9 2018 for the English-language translation by Enchanted Lion Books. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Enchanted Lion Books, New York. <\/p>\n

THE TOWN OF TURTLE. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Michelle Cuevas. Illustrations \u00a9 2018 by C\u00e1tia Chien. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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