{"id":4790,"date":"2019-01-11T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2019-01-11T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:59:03","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-shaun-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4790","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Shaun Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, it’s Elvis in 3D. <\/p>\n

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

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I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> last week about Shaun Tan’s<\/a><\/strong> Cicada<\/em> (Arthur A. Levine Books\/Scholastic, January 2019). I’m following up with some art today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Human never finish work.
Cicada always stay late. Finish work.
Nobody thank cicada.
Tok Tok Tok!”<\/em>
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“Human coworker no like cicada.
Say things. Do things.
Think cicada stupid.
Tok Tok Tok!”<\/em>
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Final endpapers<\/em>
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CICADA. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Shaun Tan. Illustrations used by permission of the publisher, Arthur A. Levine Books\/Scholastic, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click to enlarge spread)   Today over at Kirkus, it’s Elvis in 3D. That is here. * * * I wrote here last week about Shaun Tan’s Cicada (Arthur A. Levine Books\/Scholastic, January 2019). I’m following up with some art today. Enjoy!<\/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-4790","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\/4790","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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}