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… and I was actually the interviewee<\/a><\/strong> yesterday over at Aaron Mead’s blog, Children’s Books and Reviews<\/em>. Aaron has conducted many wonderful blogger interviews of late (which I used to do<\/a><\/strong> back in the day with my former blog partner-in-crime — I miss those interviews and hope to pick them back up one day). Really, you must<\/em> go explore Aaron’s informative interviews; at the very least you will get a kick out of Travis Jonker’s snowbank story<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n Anyway, my Q & A is here<\/a><\/strong>. On and on I yammer about 7-Imp, but here’s the most important part in which I get to thank the kidlitosphere: <\/p>\n Mothering is a large part of why I started blogging. I had gone from full-time work to full-time stay-at-home motherhood (my choice). I found it challenging to spend my days with humans incapable of abstract thought, as much as I adored them, after having spent my days discussing books with teachers and other librarians. Blogging was a way to keep my brain active\u2014and to keep myself involved in children\u2019s lit. I suddenly had some new colleagues, if you will\u2014other bloggers from all around the country, who also loved discussing children\u2019s lit. I still feel like I owe those other bloggers a whole heapin\u2019 lot. As in, seriously, I\u2019m tearing up now. I thank them for re-engaging me in those discussions during an isolating time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, sometimes you have to make<\/em> your own colleagues, and I still feel a debt of gratitude to my blogger friends, way too many to name. <\/p>\n In the question from which that response comes, Aaron had asked me about my own children and their reading. In their honor (since they’re both obsessive cat-lovers) and since it hurts the very hemispheres of my brain to post here at 7-Imp without<\/em> images, I include in this post (top) an image from Italian author\/illustrator Caterina Zandonella<\/a><\/strong>, who goes by “Cat Zaza” (briefly featured here<\/a><\/strong> at 7-Imp in March). When I saw this, I fell for it and secured her permission to post it here. <\/p>\n Many thanks to Aaron for the interview. <\/p>\n And Happy Memorial Day to one and all. I join others in giving thanks to those who have served. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … and I was actually the interviewee yesterday over at Aaron Mead’s blog, Children’s Books and Reviews. Aaron has conducted many wonderful blogger interviews of late (which I used to do back in the day with my former blog partner-in-crime — I miss those interviews and hope to pick them back up one day). Really, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","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=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}