{"id":4831,"date":"2019-03-08T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T06:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:20:58","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-cindy-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4831","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Cindy Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got Sharing 101 (and two brand-new picture books) on the mind. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Cindy Derby’s<\/a><\/strong> How to Walk an Ant<\/em> (Roaring Brook, March 2019). I’m following up here today with some final art from the book, and Cindy has also sent lots of process images \u2014 character sketches, book dummy images, etc. I thank her for sharing. <\/p>\n

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“… And today I will share my EXPERTISE with my very own nine-step guide.”<\/em>
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” … Look left then right when crossing ant highways.”<\/em>
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“When you encounter a colony of ants repeat steps two through seven
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HOW TO WALK AN ANT. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Cindy Derby. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Roaring Brook Press, New York. All other images used by permission of Cindy Derby.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got Sharing 101 (and two brand-new picture books) on the mind. That is here. * * * Last week, I wrote here about Cindy Derby’s How to Walk an Ant (Roaring Brook, March 2019). I’m following up here today with some final art from the book, and Cindy has […]<\/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-4831","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\/4831","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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}