{"id":4872,"date":"2019-05-10T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:59:06","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-cindy-derby-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4872","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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“polka dot polka dot \/ you are not at all what i thought …”<\/em>
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I write about new picture books from Stephen Savage and Fiona Woodcock. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Shannon Bramer’s<\/a><\/strong> Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children<\/em> (Groundwood, March 2019), illustrated by Cindy Derby<\/a><\/strong>. I’m following up here today with a few spreads. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“I’ve got a spider way of thinking …”<\/em>
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“The little brown bats \/ in my attic \/ sleep all day …”<\/em>
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CLIMBING SHADOWS: POEMS FOR CHILDREN. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Shannon Bramer. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2019 by Cindy Derby and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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