{"id":4763,"date":"2018-11-18T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2018-11-17T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:16:34","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-613-featuring-tim-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #613: Featuring Tim Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nUp for some tiny baby horses and\/or very big dogs today? I’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Elliott Kalan’s<\/a><\/strong> Horse Meets Dog<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, October 2018), illustrated by Tim Miller<\/a><\/strong>. That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and here today at 7-Imp is some art from the book. <\/p>\n


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“This is my favorite game! For obvious reasons!”<\/em>
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\nHORSE MEETS DOG. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Elliott Kalan. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Tim Miller. Published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Tim Miller.<\/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> Knowing my California friends are safe thus far. (I’m sending RAIN RAIN RAIN vibes to the parts of California affected by these fires. I wish vibes alone would solve the problem.) <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> A Dean Dinner with friends this week. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> Finishing Jonathan Auxier’s<\/strong><\/a> beautiful Sweep<\/em> with my girls (and asking him about it<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em>).
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\n4)<\/strong><\/font> I devoured a galley of Julie Berry’s<\/a><\/strong> Lovely War<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (which will be published in March) in about three days, because it was soooooo good.
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\n5)<\/strong><\/font> Good conversations with children’s lit colleagues this week. <\/p>\n

6)<\/strong><\/font> My favorite musician’s<\/a><\/strong> Instagram posts inspire me, such as this one<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

7)<\/strong><\/font> This new album from pianist Alexandra Str\u00e9liski<\/a><\/strong> is on repeat for me:
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\nWhat are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Up for some tiny baby horses and\/or very big dogs today? I’ve a review over at BookPage of Elliott Kalan’s Horse Meets Dog (Balzer + Bray, October 2018), illustrated by Tim Miller. That review is here, and here today at 7-Imp is some art from the book.<\/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-4763","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\/4763","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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}