{"id":5288,"date":"2021-02-21T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:29:34","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-731-featuring-katie-yamasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #731: Featuring Katie Yamasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“[11th Street] had nature and her best friend, Ada.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nI’m gonna take us back to 2020 for a moment and show you some spreads from a book released back in September. My review of Everything Naomi Loved<\/em> (Norton Young Readers), written by Katie Yamasaki<\/a><\/strong> and Ian \u00adLendler<\/a><\/strong> and illustrated by Katie Yamasaki, is over here<\/a><\/strong> at the Horn Book<\/em>. <\/p>\n

And here today at 7-Imp are some spreads from this tender story. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“… onto 11th Street. It wasn’t pretty but it was alive! It had everything: Mister Ray’s Automotive. Pizza by the slice. $1 wash! Hair by Carmen. Honking, blaring, booming cars, and the corner bodega. Lotto tix! Coffee! Ices! Fruit!”<\/em>
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(Two images above: Click first image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center>
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“But 11th Street changed more and more. Shops closed. Signs went up.
<\/em>Coming Soon! Luxury Living! And one day Mister Ray hung up a sign of his own.
<\/em>Closed for Good ‘Things change,’ he said. ‘Help me say goodbye.'”<\/em>
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“And when her family moved, that piece stayed with her, from 11th Street …
all the way to 111th Street. It wasn’t pretty. But Naomi knew, things change.
It’s not easy. But when we find places to call home and people to love …”<\/em>
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\nEVERYTHING NAOMI LOVED. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Katie Yamasaki and Ian Lendler. Illustrations \u00a9 2020 by Katie Yamasaki. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

* * * Jules’s Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font>
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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

1)<\/strong><\/font> I approve wholeheartedly of this opinion piece<\/a><\/strong> from Pamela Paul at the New York Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> This tribute<\/a><\/strong> to Congressman John Lewis. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> This animation by Charlotte Ager<\/a><\/strong> and Katy Wang<\/a><\/strong> of Wendell Berry’s<\/a><\/strong> “The Peace of Wild Things,” read by Wendell Berry. (You can read more about it here<\/a><\/strong>.)
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