{"id":4915,"date":"2019-07-19T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:14:28","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-carlos-aponte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4915","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Carlos Aponte"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at Kirkus<\/em> today, I’ve got some new picture books about things that go vroom, zoom, beep \u2014 and bark. <\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Carlos Aponte’s<\/a><\/strong> Across the Bay<\/em> (Penguin Random House), coming to shelves in September. Today, I’ve got some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Most of the families in Carlitos’s town looked the same.
His family didn’t look like the others. …”<\/em>
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” … The ancient city of old San Juan grew bigger and bigger.”<\/em>
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“‘San Juan might seem small, but it’s a big place.
You might have to travel the whole city.'”<\/em>
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(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center>
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ACROSS THE BAY. Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Carlos Aponte. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Penguin Random House, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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