{"id":5455,"date":"2021-11-07T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2021-11-06T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:25:53","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-768-featuring-kevin-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #768: Featuring Kevin Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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” … Everyone was happy to donate! Except the traveling clock repairman.”<\/em>
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\nI had the pleasure of writing about Kevin Cornell’s<\/a><\/strong> New in Town<\/em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2021) over at the Horn Book<\/em>. <\/p>\n

You can read that here<\/a><\/strong>, and below are some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n


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” … a legend in the annals of EMERGENCY BRIDGE-BUILDING!
And the bridge was quite good, too.”<\/em>
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\nNEW IN TOWN. Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Kevin Cornell. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 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> Long walks in cooler weather. <\/p>\n

2)<\/strong><\/font> The first hot cocoa of the season. <\/p>\n

3)<\/strong><\/font> New music from Hurray for the Riff Raff<\/a><\/strong>!
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