{"id":4784,"date":"2018-12-28T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:48:47","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-april-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4784","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring April Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Remember, <\/em>what is given from the heart reaches the heart.'”
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got my 2018 Ghost File of One. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about the final book from the late Patricia McKissack<\/a><\/strong>, What Is Given from the Heart<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade Books, January 2019), illustrated by April Harrison<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, I’m following up with some art from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Come June, we lost the farm and
moved to a run-down shotgun house in the Bottoms. …”<\/em>
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“We got an early snowfall in November and Christmas was skimpy,
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“On the Sunday before Valentine’s Day, we were off to church. …”<\/em>
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WHAT IS GIVEN FROM THE HEART. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Patricia C. McKissack. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by April Harrison and used by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘Remember, what is given from the heart reaches the heart.’”(Click to see spread in its entirety, including the text)   Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got my 2018 Ghost File of One. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about the final book from the late Patricia McKissack, What Is Given […]<\/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-4784","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\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}