{"id":4861,"date":"2019-04-19T08:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:18:24","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-daniel-minter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Daniel Minter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“At church, Daddy points to the spot where he and Uncle Jay
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got three new picture books that are about, in one way or another, family. <\/p>\n

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

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Speaking of family, last week I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Kelly Starling Lyons’<\/a><\/strong> Going Down Home with Daddy<\/em> (Peachtree, April 2019), illustrated by Daniel Minter<\/a><\/strong>. Today in this follow-up post, I’ve some spreads from the book.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“While the grown-ups catch up, we cousins run to the fence
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“Daddy’s words make me want to share more than ever. I ask him what to do. …”<\/em>
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“… I lift my head and see gleaming smiles. I try again.”<\/em>
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“Then we try to make the night stretch on forever. …”<\/em>
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GOING DOWN HOME WITH DADDY. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Kelly Starling Lyons. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 by Daniel Minter and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Peachtree, Atlanta.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“At church, Daddy points to the spot where he and Uncle Jayperformed a duet on trombone and trumpet. …”(Click to enlarge spread and read text in it entirety)   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got three new picture books that are about, in one way or another, family. That is here. * * * Speaking […]<\/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-4861","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\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}