{"id":4670,"date":"2018-07-08T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2018-07-07T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:46:20","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-594-featuring-susan-l-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #594: Featuring Susan L. Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From “First Footing: Hogmanay (Scotland)” —
“Midnight! And the bells are ringing! …”<\/em>
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\nHere’s a new poetry collection, dear Imps, all about various holidays around the world that celebrate the mark of a new year \u2014 Every Month Is a New Year: Celebrations Around the World<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Lee & Low Books, May 2018). Though in the U.S. we celebrate in January, many other countries don’t. Here, the acclaimed poet Marilyn Singer<\/a><\/strong> shares sixteen new year celebrations all over the globe, both religious and secular, and they are accompanied by Susan L. Roth’s<\/a><\/strong> eye-popping mixed-media collage illustrations. <\/p>\n

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Bookended by two poems featuring the sun and the moon, Singer takes us from the United States to Spain with many stops in between — Scotland, Russia, China, Iran, Thailand, Jordan, New Zealand, Chile, ancient Egypt, India, Ethiopia , and Ecuador. The poems, which flow from December to January, feature families joining together to share in their cultural and religious traditions, the book vertically-oriented as if a wall calendar. For American children who assume everyone marks a new year in January, this will be eye-opening and educational. Singer’s verse is reverent and detailed, and the book is appended by a note on calendars; a list of new year’s greetings in various languages; further information about each celebration; a glossary and pronunciation guide; and a list of sources. This is backmatter that means business. <\/p>\n

Roth’s layered, detailed collages were made by papers she collected all over the world (according to the book’s art note). There is a vibrancy and joy coming from these pages, as no matter when you mark a new year, it’s a time of promise and hope. <\/p>\n

Pictured here today are the book’s first three spreads. They happen to mark celebrations in December and January, so maybe they will help us feel cooler in this hot July month. …
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From “Midnight Ball Drop: New Year’s Eve (New York City, United States)” —
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middle of this merry, loud crowd \/ waiting …”<\/em>
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From “Two New Years: Russian New Years” —
“The fir tree is up …”<\/em>
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\nEVERY MONTH IS A NEW YEAR: CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Marilyn Singer. Illustrations \u00a9 2018 by Susan L. Roth and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Lee & Low Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n

* * * Jules’ Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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1)<\/strong><\/font> Writing. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> Projects like this<\/a><\/strong>. (Thanks to Little Willow for the link.) <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> The new issue of the Horn Book<\/em>, which has a piece Travis Jonker and I wrote about the year (2017) in picture book art. <\/p>\n

4)<\/strong><\/font> Validation!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

5)<\/strong><\/font> Kind offers. <\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> Getting past the very last part of the big home-repair project. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> This<\/a><\/strong> new album. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From “First Footing: Hogmanay (Scotland)” —“Midnight! And the bells are ringing! …”(Click to enlarge spread)   Here’s a new poetry collection, dear Imps, all about various holidays around the world that celebrate the mark of a new year \u2014 Every Month Is a New Year: Celebrations Around the World (Lee & Low Books, May 2018). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}