{"id":4857,"date":"2019-04-12T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:36:38","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-lorena-alvarez-ivan-brunetti-and-mordicai-gerstein-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Lorena Alvarez, Ivan Brunetti, and Mordicai Gerstein (and Others!)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Lorena Alvarez’s <\/em>Hicotea<\/center>
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— From Mordicai Gerstein’s <\/em>I Am Hermes!<\/center>
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— From Ivan Brunetti’s <\/em>Comics: Easy as ABC!<\/center>
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\nAt Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got a visually rich new picture book about celebrating family. <\/p>\n

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

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Over at Kirkus<\/em> last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Lorena Alvarez’s<\/a><\/strong> Hicotea: A Nightlights Story<\/em> (Nobrow, March 2019); Mordicai Gerstein’s<\/a><\/strong> I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the Gods<\/em> (Holiday House, April 2019), and Comics: Easy as ABC!: The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids<\/em> (April 2019) from TOON Books and Ivan Brunetti<\/a><\/strong> (and other comics artists). Today, I’ve got some art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From Hicotea<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Girls, before we leave for the wetland,
I need you to read these guides with your partners.”<\/em>
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“I’ve been collecting these things for a long time.”<\/em>
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“We soon found out that the more we explored this place,
the bigger it became.”<\/em>
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“This place is not yours to understand.”<\/em>
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“… but you won’t have a place in my world!”<\/em>
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“This is quite interesting …”<\/em>
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From I Am Hermes!<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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From Comics: Easy as ABC!<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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Note: The “Perspective” artwork is from Sergio Garc\u00eda S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
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Note: Some art on this page is from Alec Longstreth<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
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Note: These two images feature art from Art Spiegelman<\/a><\/strong> and Eleanor Davis<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
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COMICS: EASY AS ABC!: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO COMICS FOR KIDS. \u00a9 2019 individual contributors & TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior, LLC. Illustrations used by permission of TOON Books, New York. <\/p>\n

HICOTEA. \u00a9 Nobrow 2019. Text and illustrations \u00a9 Lorena Alvarez 2019. Illustrations used by permission of Nobrow, New York. <\/p>\n

I AM HERMES!: MISCHIEF-MAKING MESSENGER OF THE GODS. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Mordicai Gerstein. Illustrations used by permission of Holiday House, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Lorena Alvarez’s Hicotea   — From Mordicai Gerstein’s I Am Hermes!   — From Ivan Brunetti’s Comics: Easy as ABC!   At Kirkus today, I’ve got a visually rich new picture book about celebrating family. That is here. * * * Over at Kirkus last week, I wrote here about Lorena Alvarez’s Hicotea: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","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=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}