{"id":4781,"date":"2018-12-21T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:15:54","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-plus-what-i-didlast-week-featuring-frank-morrison-and-brian-pinkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Frank Morrison and Brian Pinkney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Dropping, scratching, beat juggling\/matching wax on wheels of steel.
Wordplay, rhyming, triple-timing, keepin’ the lyrics real.”
— From Carole Boston Weatherford’s <\/em>The Roots of Rap:
16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop, illustrated by Frank Morrison<\/em>
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— From Susan McElroy Montanari’s <\/em>Hip-Hop Lollipop,
illustrated by Brian Pinkney<\/em>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I highlight the final book from the great Patricia McKissack<\/a><\/strong>, who left us in 2017. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Carole Boston Weatherford’s<\/a><\/strong> The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop<\/em>, illustrated by Frank Morrison<\/a><\/strong> (Little Bee Books, January 2019), and Susan McElroy Montanari’s Hip-Hop Lollipop<\/em>, illustrated by Brian Pinkney<\/a><\/strong> (Schwartz & Wade, October 2018). <\/p>\n

I’m following up with art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Hip-Hop Lollipop<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Hands tutting. \/ Knees jutting. \/ Arms cranking.
Body swanking. \/ Hip gyration. \/ Exultation!”<\/em>
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“At Big Sister’s doorway, \/ Lollie stops to say ‘Hey!’
Tasha’s jam is techno \u2014 \/ She glides heel-to-toe in slo-mo.”<\/em>
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“Mama scoops her up high \/ Up into the sky. \/ Sky.
Then swings Lollie down low. \/ ‘In your room you go. \/ Go!'”<\/em>
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“Jumping \/ Snapping \/ Nonstop.
Lollie’s DREAMING hip-hop!'”<\/em>
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From The Roots of Rap<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“A boom box-toting homey blasts a hot track on a corner.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Passersby four-deep surround a street performer.”<\/em>
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“Female MCs break it down: Salt-N-Pepa and TLC.”<\/em><\/center>
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“Queen Latifah sports a crown, reigning like royalty.”<\/em>
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“A generation voicing stories, hopes, and fears
founds a hip-hop nation. Say <\/em>holler if you hear.”<\/em>
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HIP-HOP LOLLIPOP. Text copyright \u00a9 2018 by Susan McElroy Montanari. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2018 by Brian Pinkney and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York. <\/p>\n

THE ROOTS OF RAP: 16 BARS ON THE 4 PILLARS OF HIP-HOP. Images provided by little bee books\/Bonnier Publishing USA. Text copyright 2019 by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrations copyright 2019 by Frank Morrison.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Dropping, scratching, beat juggling\/matching wax on wheels of steel.Wordplay, rhyming, triple-timing, keepin’ the lyrics real.”— From Carole Boston Weatherford’s The Roots of Rap:16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop, illustrated by Frank Morrison(Click to enlarge spread and see text)   — From Susan McElroy Montanari’s Hip-Hop Lollipop,illustrated by Brian Pinkney   Over at Kirkus […]<\/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-4781","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\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}