{"id":5449,"date":"2021-10-26T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2021-10-26T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:42:08","slug":"room-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"Room for Everyone<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nOver at BookPage<\/em>, I’ve got a review of Naaz Khan’s<\/a><\/strong> Room for Everyone<\/em> (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, November 2021), illustrated by Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and below are some spreads. <\/p>\n

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“The daladala rumbled and roared, and Musa and Dada were off to the shore to feast on fish at the Friday bazaar by the blue crystal waters of Zanzibar.”<\/em>
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“Soon after zooming past Zuleikha Street, they saw one old man and his bike with no seat; so the driver honked, pulled to the side, and asked, ‘Dear brother, do you need a ride? It\u2019s hotter than peppers out there in the sun!
Come in, there\u2019s room for everyone!'”<\/em>
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“Onward they went, with a honk and a toot,
till vendors appeared with three baskets of fruit …”<\/em>
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ROOM FOR EVERYONE. Text \u00a9 2021 by Naaz Khan. Illustrations \u00a9 2021 by Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, an imprint of Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Over at BookPage, I’ve got a review of Naaz Khan’s Room for Everyone (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, November 2021), illustrated by Merc\u00e8 L\u00f3pez. That review is here, and below are some spreads. Enjoy!<\/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-5449","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\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}