{"id":2535,"date":"2013-03-21T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2013-03-21T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:47:47","slug":"interrupting-a-busy-busy-authorand-a-busy-busy-illustrator-for-a-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"Interrupting a Busy-Busy Author<br>and a Busy-Busy Illustrator for a Chat &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/BusyBusyChick_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a joint Q&#038;A. Author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janiceharrington.com\/\">Janice N. Harrington<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianpinkney.net\/\">Brian Pinkney<\/a><\/strong> talk with me about <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780374347468\">Busy-Busy Little Chick<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, their new collaboration from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (released last month). <\/p>\n<p>Harrington&#8217;s story is based on a fable told by the Nkundo people of Central Africa, and she talks to me about the research that went into the book, while Pinkney weighs in on his artistic choices for the book&#8217;s vibrant illustrations. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/busy-storyteller-and-busy-busy-little-chick\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some (more) illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>BUSY-BUSY LITTLE CHICK. Text copyright \u00a9 2013 by Janice N. Harrington. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2013 by Brian Pinkney. Illustration above reproduced by permission of the publisher, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve got a joint Q&#038;A. Author Janice N. Harrington and illustrator Brian Pinkney talk with me about Busy-Busy Little Chick, their new collaboration from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (released last month). Harrington&#8217;s story is based on a fable told by the Nkundo people of Central Africa, and she talks to [&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-2535","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\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}