{"id":4786,"date":"2019-01-04T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2019-01-05T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:09:27","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-penelope-bagieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4786","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week,<br>Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring P\u00e9n\u00e9lope Bagieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/brcutting.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about Shaun Tan&#8217;s newest picture book, <em>Cicada<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/cicadas-lament\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/my-2018-ghost-file-one\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_Bagieu\">P\u00e9n\u00e9lope Bagieu&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World<\/em> (First Second, March 2018). Today, I&#8217;ve got a bit of art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Pages from Brazen_Bustle-4.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Pages from Brazen_Bustle-4left.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Pages from Brazen_Bustle-4.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Pages from Brazen_Bustle-4right.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>A spread from &#8220;Las Mariposas: Rebel Sisters&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click either image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Leymah Gbowee_105_BRAZENlarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/Leymah Gbowee_105_BRAZENsmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>A page from &#8220;Leymah Gbowee: Social Worker&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/BettyDavis_BRAZENfull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/BettyDavis_BRAZENleft.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/BettyDavis_BRAZENfull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/BettyDavis_BRAZENright.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>A spread from &#8220;Betty Davis: Singer-Songwriter&#8221;<\/em><br \/>(Click either image to enlarge and see spread in its entirety)<\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/12\/brazencover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>BRAZEN: REBEL LADIES WHO ROCKED THE WORLD. Originally published in French in 2016. English translation copyright \u00a9 2018 by P\u00e9n\u00e9lope Bagieu. English translation by Montana Kane. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, First Second Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Kirkus, I write about Shaun Tan&#8217;s newest picture book, Cicada. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about P\u00e9n\u00e9lope Bagieu&#8217;s Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World (First Second, March 2018). Today, I&#8217;ve got a bit of art from the book. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","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=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}