{"id":3451,"date":"2014-07-07T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2014-07-07T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:17:20","slug":"wild-things-website-and-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"<em>Wild Things!<\/em>: Website and Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/WILDTHINGSHEADER_small11.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick note to say two things:<\/p>\n<p>First up, Betsy Bird and I have launched a website for our upcoming book, <em>Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature<\/em>, coming from Candlewick Press in early August. It will have handy info, like appearances, book order info, etc., but together, for every day until our release date, Betsy and I will reveal a story that didn\u2019t make it into our book. It&#8217;s, as Betsy describes it, the Director&#8217;s Cut. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s post (when the site went live) was an introductory\/hello post. Yesterday, we shared what has to be, hands down, the best ALA Conference photo ever. And today&#8217;s story is a tribute to the generosity Maurice Sendak had for up-and-coming illustrators and includes a story from author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaramcclintockbooks.com\/\">Barbara McClintock<\/a><\/strong> about calling him up out of the blue in 1975: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>I thought\u2026well, he\u2019d know how I should get involved in children\u2019s books. He could give me advice, which is a little like thinking you could call Meryl Streep and ask for advice about becoming an actress. But I decided that I would call him. And I thought that I didn\u2019t really have much to worry about, because he would do only one of two things: He would either tell me what I wanted to know or he\u2019d hang up.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All those posts are at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/\">the new site<\/a><\/strong>, and again, we will post daily for a while. <\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;ll have a book launch for the book at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parnassusbooks.net\/\">Parnassus Books<\/a><\/strong> on August 7, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parnassusbooks.net\/event\/author-event-julie-danielson-author-wild-things\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the info. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to say two things: First up, Betsy Bird and I have launched a website for our upcoming book, Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature, coming from Candlewick Press in early August. It will have handy info, like appearances, book order info, etc., but together, for every day until our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}