{"id":4704,"date":"2018-08-24T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:31:58","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-renato-moriconi-and-heidi-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Renato Moriconi and Heidi Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From Renato Moriconi’s <\/em>The Little Barbarian
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“Sharp-toothed …”
— From Kate Gardner’s <\/em>Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth,
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got babies on the mind. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Renato Moriconi’s<\/a><\/strong> The Little Barbarian<\/em> (Eerdmans, August 2018) and Kate Gardner’s Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, September 2018), illustrated by Heidi Smith<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up with a bit of art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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From The Little Barbarian<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Lovely Beasts:
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“Fanged …”
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“Friend.”
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“bigger … biggest …”
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THE LITTLE BARBARIAN. Text and illustrations \u00a9 Renato Moriconi. English-language edition \u00a9 2018 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. lllustrations reproduced by permission of Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. <\/p>\n

LOVELY BEASTS: THE SURPRISING TRUTH. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Katherine Gardner. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Heidi Smith. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Renato Moriconi’s The Little Barbarian(Click to enlarge)   “Sharp-toothed …”— From Kate Gardner’s Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth,illustrated by Heidi Smith(Click to enlarge)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got babies on the mind. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Renato Moriconi’s The Little Barbarian (Eerdmans, August […]<\/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-4704","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\/4704","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=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}