{"id":4882,"date":"2019-05-24T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:54:35","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuringximo-abadia-micha-archer-and-hadley-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4882","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring
Ximo Abadia, Micha Archer, and Hadley Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— From Ximo Abadia’s <\/em>The Farmer
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— From Micha Archer’s <\/em>Daniel’s Good Day
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— From Jan Greenberg’s and Sandra Jordan’s <\/em>Two Brothers, Four Hands:
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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, Steve Light<\/a><\/strong> talks to me about making board books. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Micha Archer’s<\/a><\/strong> Daniel’s Good Day<\/em> (Nancy Paulsen Books, May 2019); Jan Greenberg’s and Sandra Jordan’s<\/a><\/strong> Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti<\/em> (Neal Porter Books, April 2019), illustrated by Hadley Hooper<\/a><\/strong>; and Ximo Abadia’s<\/a><\/strong> The Farmer<\/em> (Holiday House, March 2019). I’m following up today with art from each book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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From The Farmer<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“Every day, Paul watches, inspects, checks.”<\/em>
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From Daniel’s Good Day<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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“The babies are sleeping. The couple sits on a shady bench.
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“‘There was a clear sky, a steady wind, a shady bench, a long nap (but not for me!) <\/em>pleases and <\/em>thank-yous, bees on flowers (but not at a birthday picnic!) wagging tails, busy sidewalks, friendly faces, hugs from Grandma \u2014 and from you.'”<\/em>
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From Two Brothers, Four Hands<\/em>:<\/font><\/strong><\/center>
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” … They pass through burning towns, the air leaden with metal-gray smoke.”<\/em>
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” … He walks the city streetes and marvels at the skyscrapers.”<\/em>
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DANIEL’S GOOD DAY. Copyright \u00a9 2019 Micha Archer. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Nancy Paulsen Books\/Penguin Random House, New York. <\/p>\n

THE FARMER. Originally published in French as LE POTAGER. Copyright \u00a9 2017 Editions La Joie de lire S.A. First published in the U.S. in 2019 by Holiday House, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.<\/p>\n

TWO BROTHERS, FOUR HANDS: THE ARTISTS ALBERTO AND DIEGO GIACOMETTI. Text copyright \u00a9 2019 by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 by Hadley Hooper and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Neal Porter Books\/Holiday House, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— From Ximo Abadia’s The Farmer(Click to enlarge spread)   — From Micha Archer’s Daniel’s Good Day(Click to enlarge)   — From Jan Greenberg’s and Sandra Jordan’s Two Brothers, Four Hands:The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti, illustrated by Hadley Hooper(Click to enlarge)   Over at Kirkus today, Steve Light talks to me about making board […]<\/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-4882","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\/4882","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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}