{"id":2469,"date":"2012-11-28T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2012-11-28T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:19:17","slug":"two-quick-notes-of-the-stephen-and-steven-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Two Quick Notes of the Stephen and Steven Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SwjtaLbA64E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A couple of quick 7-Imp notes here, while I drink my coffee, which I keep meaning to share (the notes, that is, though I&#8217;m always happy to share my coffee, too &#8230; come on over) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Meet_2usenov.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\">First up, regarding the video above: I admit that here in 7-Imp Land, I tend to fly by the seat of my pants. I never really have a schedule for what I&#8217;m going to post when, but I <em>can<\/em> say that it will be very likely that my first &#8220;breakfast&#8221; interview of 2013 will be with author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephensavage.net\/\">Stephen Savage<\/a><\/strong>. That&#8217;s &#8217;cause he&#8217;s still busy <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780439700498\">trying to find Walrus<\/a><\/strong> and couldn&#8217;t quite meet with me for breakfast this month. <\/p>\n<p>Nah? My excuse not working? Okay, really what happened is that we had started planning&#8212;good heavens, this was such a while ago that I can&#8217;t even remember how long&#8212;a video interview. Oh, we were gonna do such fun things with this video interview, I tell you! But &#8230; well, the above video (just us planning things out) is effectively as far as we got. (Look how psychedelic the thumbnail image is. Aren&#8217;t you intrigued? Those special effects, needless to say, were all Stephen&#8217;s doing.) <\/p>\n<p>Now, let me tell you &#8230; this Stephen Savage &#8230; he missed a calling in film direction, but let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m not exactly a video ninja, so we happily decided to do a straight-up, traditional written breakfast interview instead. (Stephen had infinite patience with my video-bumbly self.) We&#8217;re going to do it in early 2013, since his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780439698856\">new illustrated title with Lauren Thompson<\/a><\/strong> will be out then. So, I look forward to that in January: He will tell us more about the new book, as well as about <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781596436480\">Little Tug<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (pictured above), which was released in October and which I hope you&#8217;ve seen. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/polarbearmorningcover.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/cover art2.jpg\">Secondly, a note for fellow picture book junkies: In the November 2012 issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/booklinks\"><strong>Book Links<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, there is a wonderful interview with author and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenkellogg.com\/\">Steven Kellogg<\/a><\/strong> by teacher and reviewer (and Nashvillian!) Dean Schneider. (Dean has written and done many good things in this field&#8212;do you have all day for me to list them?&#8212;but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.hbook.com\/pdf\/articles\/13ways.pdf\">this<\/a><\/strong>, written with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/category\/blogs\/calling-caldecott\/\">Robin Smith<\/a><\/strong>, makes me cheer every time I see it.) Here&#8217;s an excerpt, Steven&#8217;s thoughts on picture books: <\/p>\n<p><em><font size=2><strong><font color=\"000066\">&#8220;The picture book is the art form designed specifically for kids, and it has everything to do with shaping their aesthetic judgment; introducing them to the whole world of art; encouraging them to sharpen their visual literacy. &#8230;&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to which I say, <em>amen<\/em>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/booklistonline.com\/Books-and-Authors-Talking-with-Steven-Kellogg-Dean-Schneider\/pid=5618044\">Here<\/a><\/strong> is a link to the full article. As you can see, a subscription is required to read it, but I bring it to readers&#8217; attention here, should your local library have access &#8212; and because it really is a great interview. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick 7-Imp notes here, while I drink my coffee, which I keep meaning to share (the notes, that is, though I&#8217;m always happy to share my coffee, too &#8230; come on over) &#8230; First up, regarding the video above: I admit that here in 7-Imp Land, I tend to fly by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","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=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}