{"id":3278,"date":"2013-12-12T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:36:34","slug":"my-morning-chat-with-jon-agee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Chat with Jon Agee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Jon Agee author photoforpost2.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\">This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonagee.com\/\">Jon Agee<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here. <\/p>\n<p>We talk about his newest picture book, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780803739062?aff=\">Little Santa<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, released by Dial in October. Jon also looks back at publishing picture books over the years; considers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maurice_Sendak\">Maurice Sendak&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> contributions to picture books, as well as to his career; discusses what contemporary picture book artists inspire him &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and more! <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at <em>7-Imp<\/em>, I&#8217;ll have some more art from <em>Little Santa<\/em>, as well as some early dummy images from Jon. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/there-once-was-boy-named-santa\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Jon Agee used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I chat with author-illustrator Jon Agee, pictured here. We talk about his newest picture book, Little Santa, released by Dial in October. Jon also looks back at publishing picture books over the years; considers Maurice Sendak&#8217;s contributions to picture books, as well as to his career; discusses what contemporary picture [&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-3278","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\/3278","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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}