{"id":3235,"date":"2013-10-17T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2013-10-17T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T01:49:04","slug":"a-morning-chat-with-andrea-davis-pinkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"A Morning Chat with Andrea Davis Pinkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Andrea-PinkneyphotoLargefileforpost3.JPG\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">&#8230;Our publishing community needs more people of color working in publishing houses at all levels and in all departments to 1) hire people of color; 2) mentor and retain those people; 3) acquire books; 4) get behind books and nurture the talent that creates them so they\u2019re encouraged to keep writing and illustrating. It\u2019s that simple. But it\u2019s not easy.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I chat with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrea_Davis_Pinkney\">Andrea Davis Pinkney<\/a><\/strong> about her research for <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/andrea-davis-pinkney\/martin-mahalia\/\">Martin &#038; Mahalia<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, collaborating with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianpinkney.net\/\">Brian<\/a><\/strong>, the state of so-called multicultural books, and more. That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/power-words-and-music\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>For those who want to see some art from this, her newest picture book, there&#8217;s a beautiful spread from Brian over at the column this morning, and next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some more of his spreads from this book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Our publishing community needs more people of color working in publishing houses at all levels and in all departments to 1) hire people of color; 2) mentor and retain those people; 3) acquire books; 4) get behind books and nurture the talent that creates them so they\u2019re encouraged to keep writing and illustrating. It\u2019s that [&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-3235","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\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}