{"id":3549,"date":"2014-10-16T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2014-10-16T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:47:46","slug":"the-coretta-scott-king-awards-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"The Coretta Scott King Awards Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/10\/Angelica Washington, Collette Hopkins, Sharon Draper. Mama Koku and R. Gregory Christieuse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ever heard of the Coretta Scott King Awards Book Fair? I hadn&#8217;t either till I took my children to one of these fairs in Nashville a few months back. <\/p>\n<p>Today at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to the Fair&#8217;s organizer, Collette Hopkins. She&#8217;s pictured above (second from the left) at this year&#8217;s Fair with Angelica Washington, author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sharondraper.com\/\">Sharon Draper<\/a><\/strong>, storyteller <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mamakoku.com\/\">Mama Koku<\/a><\/strong>, and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1553\">R. Gregory Christie<\/a><\/strong>. Collette talks about what the Fair is and how interested teachers and librarians can bring it to their city. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/book-fair-you-should-know-about\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Image used with permission of Collette Hopkins.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Coretta Scott King Awards Book Fair? I hadn&#8217;t either till I took my children to one of these fairs in Nashville a few months back. Today at Kirkus, I talk to the Fair&#8217;s organizer, Collette Hopkins. She&#8217;s pictured above (second from the left) at this year&#8217;s Fair with Angelica Washington, author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","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=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}