{"id":2468,"date":"2012-11-27T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2012-11-27T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:01:34","slug":"seven-questions-over-breakfast-with-steve-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Steve Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m slowly inching my way toward the holidays. I have to ease my way in, given the rampant commercialism. (Am I just a grinch for letting it wear me out? I guess that’s a question for another day.) But I do gladly share above this work-in-progress image from Steve Light’s The Christmas Giant<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, released by Candlewick in 2010. (I covered it here<\/a><\/strong> at 7-Imp a couple years ago, if you’d like to see some final art from it.) <\/p>\n

Steve is visiting this morning in what is—triumphantly (to me anyway, since I’ve missed them)—the return of the 7-Imp breakfast interview! I got really super swamped with manuscript revisions for a bit there, so I haven’t done a breakfast interview in a while, but for now I’m back to a normal (for me) schedule. For this, I roll out the red carpet for Steve.<\/p>\n

Steve tells me way more about his career below over breakfast (“truck-stop” eggs), and he shares lots of art, for which I thank him. His very latest picture book, also released by Candlewick (October), is the charming story of a young girl, named Zephyr, who loved airplanes and one day hoped to fly one of her own. (Yes, it makes me happy that this little girl is into planes, and guess what? Her dad also wears an apron and cooks, and her mama is the one in the shop—or maybe it’s a garage—with tools repairing things. Take that<\/em>, gender sterotypes.) I couldn’t sleep at night if I gave away the entire story of Zephyr Takes Flight<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, in case you want to read it for yourself, but it’s an entertaining story that tips its hat to more than one kind of flight (actual flight, as well as flights of the imagination) and brings us an irrepressible picture book protagonist in the free-spirited Zephyr. <\/p>\n

And Steve’s swirly, elongated lines and playful perspectives and proportions are perfect for this tale of flight. Let’s get right to it so that we can see more artwork. <\/p>\n

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Jules<\/font><\/strong>: Are you an illustrator or author\/illustrator?<\/font><\/p>\n

Steve<\/font><\/strong>: Author\/Illustrator. <\/p>\n

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Jules<\/font><\/strong>: Can you list your books-to-date?<\/font><\/p>\n

Steve<\/font><\/strong>: <\/p>\n