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\nThis past week, Tennessee’s Chapter 16<\/em> posted a Q&A I did with author Derrick Barnes<\/a><\/strong>, who will be at Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books<\/a><\/strong> this October. He talks to me about his newest picture book \u2014 The King of Kindergarten<\/em> (Nancy Paulsen Books, July 2019), illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 as well as the success of last year’s award-winning Crown<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. You can click on the image above to head to our chat. <\/p>\n
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Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n
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1)<\/strong><\/font> This kick is a couple weeks old (but I haven’t done seven separate kicks in a while)…<\/p>\n I don’t know if you all saw this shirt going around on Twitter: 3)<\/strong><\/font> Stumbling on this video of Nicole Atkins<\/a><\/strong> singing in the wild. THAT VOICE. Also, that is a great song. (p.s. When I was at the Tennessee Renaissance Festival this summer, I saw her \u2014 that’s Nashville for you \u2014 and introduced myself and told her she has one of the world’s most amazing voices.)
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\nThis was Lucy Knisley’s<\/a><\/strong> response below. I love it. (She’s actually selling these<\/a><\/strong> now.)
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\n2)<\/strong><\/font> Getting all of Lucy’s books from our library. (I had only read her newest one<\/a><\/strong>.) My daughters and I have been passing them around. I hope she writes about every<\/em> stage of her life. I’d read ’em. <\/p>\n
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