{"id":2527,"date":"2013-03-07T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2013-03-07T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:07:41","slug":"a-brief-visit-with-sean-qualls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2527","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Visit with Sean Qualls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/me nj ted1.jpg\">This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a Q&#038;A with author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1653\">Sean Qualls<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his latest picture book, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780547362656\">Lullaby (For a Black Mother)<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Lullaby (For a Black Mother)<\/em> is a picture book adaptation of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\">Langston Hughes<\/a><\/strong> poem, originally published in 1932. <\/p>\n<p>I asked Sean about what it was like to illustrate such a project, as well as what&#8217;s next for him. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up, as always, with some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/lullaby-another-lullaby-oneself\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo credit: Angela Qualls.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve got a Q&#038;A with author\/illustrator Sean Qualls, pictured here, about his latest picture book, Lullaby (For a Black Mother). Lullaby (For a Black Mother) is a picture book adaptation of a Langston Hughes poem, originally published in 1932. I asked Sean about what it was like to illustrate such [&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-2527","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\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}