{"id":4649,"date":"2018-06-08T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:33:43","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-eugene-yelchin-and-hyewon-yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4649","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week,<br>Featuring Eugene Yelchin and Hyewon Yum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturdayopen.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8212; From Hyewon Yum&#8217;s <\/em>Saturday Is a Swimming Day<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PPopen.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8212; From Eugene Yelchin&#8217;s <\/em>Pip &#038; Pup<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nOver at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I may ramble a bit about reading. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/reading-church\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/preschool-picture-book-round-\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugeneyelchinbooks.com\/\">Eugene Yelchin&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Pip &#038; Pup<\/em> (Henry Holt, April 2018) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2080\">Hyewon Yum&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Saturday Is a Swimming Day<\/em> (Candlewick, June 2018). I&#8217;ve got art from each book below. <\/p>\n<p>I also wrote about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1771\">Chris Raschka&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>New Shoes<\/em>, and I hope to have some art from that soon here at 7-Imp. Stay tuned. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=4>From <em>Pip &#038; Pup:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP1smalljpg.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP2large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP2small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP3large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP3small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP4large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PP4small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PPcoverlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/PPcoversmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=4>From <em>Saturday Is a Swimming Day:<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday1large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday1small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;When Mary blew the whistle, I did not get in. I told her I had a stomachache again,<br \/>and she said she would hold me so I could practice ice-cream scoops like the other kids.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday2full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday2left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday2full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturday2right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Saturdaycover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>PIP &#038; PUP. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Eugene Yelchin. Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Eugene Yelchin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SATURDAY IS SWIMMING DAY. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Hyewon Yum. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; From Hyewon Yum&#8217;s Saturday Is a Swimming Day &nbsp; &#8212; From Eugene Yelchin&#8217;s Pip &#038; Pup &nbsp; Over at Kirkus today, I may ramble a bit about reading. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Eugene Yelchin&#8217;s Pip &#038; Pup (Henry Holt, April 2018) and Hyewon Yum&#8217;s Saturday Is [&hellip;]<\/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-4649","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\/4649","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=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}