{"id":3259,"date":"2013-11-14T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:15:17","slug":"a-morning-chat-with-author-kate-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"A Morning Chat with Author Kate Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">To me, the perfect picture book is a spontaneous creation, inspired by an invisible and mysterious muse not to be found in the marketplace.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Photo Katebanks.jpg\">It was a pleasure to chat with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/author\/katebanks\">Kate Banks<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here. My brief Q&#038;A with her is posted over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s newest picture book is <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780374313210\">City Cat<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1232\">Lauren Castillo<\/a><\/strong>, so I asked her about that book. But since Kate&#8217;s first books were published in the 1980s, I thought I&#8217;d also ask her how she thinks the picture book fares today. Part of her response is above. <\/p>\n<p>And all the rest is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/expanding-your-borders\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some of Lauren&#8217;s art from <em>City Cat<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Kate Banks used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To me, the perfect picture book is a spontaneous creation, inspired by an invisible and mysterious muse not to be found in the marketplace.\u201d * * * It was a pleasure to chat with author Kate Banks, pictured here. My brief Q&#038;A with her is posted over at Kirkus this morning. Kate&#8217;s newest picture book [&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-3259","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\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}