{"id":2385,"date":"2012-07-11T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2012-07-11T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:01:46","slug":"what-i-did-at-kirkus-last-week-featuring-bryan-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"What I Did at <em>Kirkus<\/em> Last Week, Featuring Bryan Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Collier9781442420083.in01large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Collier9781442420083.in01small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted briefly with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryancollier.com\/\">Bryan Collier<\/a><\/strong> about his latest picture book, an adaptation of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/83\">Langston Hughes&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> iconic poem, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15615\">&#8220;I, Too, Sing America.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> This is called <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781442420083\">I, Too, Am America<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and was published by Simon &#038; Schuster in May. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/celebrate-4th-july-i-too-sing-america\/\">Here<\/a><\/strong> is that link. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple of spreads in this post today. Enjoy. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/CollierTwo9781442420083.in02large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/CollierTwo9781442420083.in02small.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/ITooAmAmerica-cover1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Spreads from I, TOO, AM AMERICA are copyright \u00a9 2012 by Bryan Collier and used with permission of Simon &#038; Schuster.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge) Last week at Kirkus, I chatted briefly with Bryan Collier about his latest picture book, an adaptation of Langston Hughes&#8217;s iconic poem, &#8220;I, Too, Sing America.&#8221; This is called I, Too, Am America and was published by Simon &#038; Schuster in May. Here is that link. I&#8217;ve got a couple of spreads [&hellip;]<\/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-2385","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\/2385","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=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}