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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Helen Ahpornsiri and Jaime Hernandez

h1 March 30th, 2018 by jules


— From Jaime Hernandez’s The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America


 


“On a cold, frosty night, a fox sets out, his paws crunching in the snow,
his ears alert to the slightest sound of movement.”
— From Helen Ahpornsiri’s Drawn from Nature
(Click spread to enlarge and read text in its entirety)


 

Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got picture books with big subjects on the mind.

That is here.

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Last week over at Kirkus (here), I wrote about four new Spring picture books. Today at 7-Imp, I have art from two of them — Helen Ahpornsiri’s Drawn from Nature (Candlewick, March 2018) and Jaime Hernandez’s The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America (TOON Books & Graphics, April 2018).

I wish I had some spreads to show you from Guridi’s Once Upon a Time (Tate Publishing, March 2018), but I wasn’t able to secure any.

And this Sunday here at 7-Imp, I’ll share images and sketches and such from Rowboat Watkins’s Big Bunny (Chronicle, April 2018).

Enjoy!



 

From Drawn from Nature:


 


“As dusk settles into darkness, there are new faces to be seen:
nocturnal animals that come out at night to look for their prey.”
(Click spread to enlarge and read text in its entirety)


 



 

From The Dragon Slayer:


 



— From the story “The Dragon Slayer”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



— Another spread from the story “The Dragon Slayer”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



— From the story “Martina Martínez and Pérez the Mouse”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



— Another spread from the story “Martina Martínez and Pérez the Mouse”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



— From the story “Tup and the Ants”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



— Another spread from the story “Tup and the Ants”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 



 

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THE DRAGON SLAYER: FOLKTALES FROM LATIN AMERICA. © 2017 Jaime Hernandez & TOON Books. Images used by permission of TOON Books.

DRAWN FROM NATURE. Text and design copyright © 2018 by The Templar Company Limited. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Helen Ahpornsiri. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.





3 comments to “What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Helen Ahpornsiri and Jaime Hernandez”

  1. SO, so eager to see DRAGON SLAYER!

         by Mel March 30th, 2018 at 7:16 am

  2. Wowie — those samples from Drawn from Nature just about knocked me out! Beautiful, beautiful work! (Not to take anything from The Dragon Slayer, but it was the image of the DfN fox over on Instagram that first slayed me.)

         by JES March 30th, 2018 at 8:20 am

  3. I would protect that dragon. The fox is GORGEOUS! Keep singing, cat!

         by Little Willow March 30th, 2018 at 10:45 am

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