{"id":4812,"date":"2019-02-08T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:22:40","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-ebony-glenn-and-keith-negley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4812","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Ebony Glenn and Keith Negley"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Michelle Meadows’s <\/em>Brave Ballerina, illustrated by Ebony Glenn<\/em><\/center>
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“And not everyone liked it. ‘You’re gonna regret wearing pants, Mary Walker!’
they all said. ‘No, I won’t!’ Mary said back.”
— From Keith Negley’s <\/em>Mary Wears What She Wants
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\nToday over at Kirkus<\/em>, I take a look at Sergio Ruzzier’s two new picture books \u2014 and even chat with him a bit about them. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Michelle Meadows’s<\/a><\/strong> Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins<\/em> (Henry Holt, January 2019), illustrated by Ebony Glenn<\/a><\/strong>, as well as Keith Negley’s<\/a><\/strong> Mary Wears What She Wants<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, January 2019). I’m following up here today with some art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Mary Wears What She Wants<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“But when Mary got to school it was more of the same.
She started to worry this was how things were going to be from now on.”<\/em>
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From Brave Ballerina<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“This is the girl who danced in the breeze to the
<\/em>swoosh, swoosh, swoosh of towering trees.”<\/em>
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“This is the class, a welcoming place,
that focused on talent regardless of race.”<\/em>
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BRAVE BALLERINA: THE STORY OF JANET COLLINS. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Michelle Meadows. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 by Ebony Glenn and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Henry Holt and Company, New York. <\/p>\n

MARY WEARS WHAT SHE WANTS. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Keith Negley. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Michelle Meadows’s Brave Ballerina, illustrated by Ebony Glenn   “And not everyone liked it. ‘You’re gonna regret wearing pants, Mary Walker!’they all said. ‘No, I won’t!’ Mary said back.”— From Keith Negley’s Mary Wears What She Wants(Click to enlarge spread)   Today over at Kirkus, I take a look at Sergio Ruzzier’s two […]<\/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-4812","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\/4812","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=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}