{"id":4865,"date":"2019-04-26T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2019-04-26T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:48:53","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-kaylani-juanita-hyeon-ju-lee-and-zeke-pena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Kaylani Juanita, Hyeon-Ju Lee, and Zeke Pe\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"


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— From Kyle Lukoff’s <\/em>When Aidan Became a Brother,
illustrated by Kaylani Juanita<\/em><\/center>
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— From Isabel Quintero’s <\/em>My Papi Has a Motorcycle,
illustrated by Zeke Pe\u00f1a<\/em><\/center>
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— From Hyeon-Ju Lee’s
<\/em>The Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up<\/center>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got the newest picture book from author-illustrator Susan L. Roth. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Hyeon-Ju Lee’s The Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up<\/em> (Feiwel and Friends, April 2019); Isabel Quintero’s<\/a><\/strong> My Papi Has a Motorcycle<\/em> (Kokila, May 2019), illustrated by Zeke Pe\u00f1a<\/a><\/strong>; and Kyle Lukoff’s<\/a><\/strong> When Aidan Became a Brother<\/em> (Lee & Low, May 2019), illustrated by Kaylani Juanita<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up with art from each book today. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From My Papi Has a Motorcycle<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“My papi, the carpenter, is covered in sawdust and smells like a hard day at work. …”<\/em>
(Click either image to see closer and to see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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“And then … we take off!”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center>
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“We become a spectacular celestial thing soaring on asphalt. …”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)<\/center>
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“We roar past murals that tell our history ….”<\/em>
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(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center>
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From The Happiest Tree<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“I moved to this building when I was ten years old.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“Beautiful sounds from the Rose piano class always filled the ground floor.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“For the first time ever, I could see myself.
I was happy and excited and full of life.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“Sometimes, the groundskeeper trimmed my branches.
It was painful but it helped so that I could grow up quickly!”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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From When Aidan Became a Brother<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl.
His parents gave him a pretty name.
His room looked like a girl’s room.
And he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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“It was hard to tell his parents what he knew about himself,
but it was even harder not to.”
<\/em>(Click either image to see closer and to see spread in its entirety)<\/center>
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“Aidan knew how to love someone,
and that was the most important part of being a brother.”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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(Click to enlarge cover)<\/em><\/center>
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* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n

THE HAPPIEST TREE: A STORY OF GROWING UP. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Hyeon-Ju Lee. Originally published in Korea in 2016 by DreamingKite Corp. First American edition, 2019. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Feiwel and Friends, New York. <\/p>\n

MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Isabel Quintero. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Zeke Pe\u00f1a and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. <\/p>\n

WHEN AIDAN BECAME A BROTHER. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Kyle Lukoff. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Kaylani Juanita nd reproduced by permission of the publisher, Lee & Low Books, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Kyle Lukoff’s When Aidan Became a Brother,illustrated by Kaylani Juanita   — From Isabel Quintero’s My Papi Has a Motorcycle,illustrated by Zeke Pe\u00f1a   — From Hyeon-Ju Lee’sThe Happiest Tree: A Story of Growing Up   Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got the newest picture book from author-illustrator Susan L. Roth. That is […]<\/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-4865","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\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}