{"id":4818,"date":"2019-02-15T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:43:28","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-sergio-ruzzier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4818","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Sergio Ruzzier"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got some board books on the mind, as well as Janik Coat’s book for babies, coming to shelves next month here in the U.S. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I talked here<\/a><\/strong> with author-illustrator Sergio Ruzzier<\/a><\/strong> about his two spring books, Good Boy<\/em> (Atheneum, February 2019) and Fox + Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride: And Other Stories<\/em> (Chronicle, March 2019). I’m following up today with some preliminary images and final art from each book. I thank Sergio for sharing. <\/p>\n


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Some Preliminary Images & Final Art
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Final art<\/em>
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Final art<\/em>
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Some Preliminary Images & Final Art
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From Story #1, “The Quiet Boat Ride”<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Story #2, “Chocolate Cake”<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Final art<\/em>
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From Story #3, “The Sunrise”<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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The book’s glorious endpapers<\/em>
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GOOD BOY. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Sergio Ruzzier. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York. <\/p>\n

FOX + CHICK: THE QUIET BOAT RIDE: AND OTHER STORIES. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Sergio Ruzzier. Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

All images here used by permission of Sergio Ruzzier.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got some board books on the mind, as well as Janik Coat’s book for babies, coming to shelves next month here in the U.S. That is here. * * * Last week, I talked here with author-illustrator Sergio Ruzzier about his two spring books, Good Boy (Atheneum, February 2019) […]<\/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-4818","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\/4818","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=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}