{"id":3659,"date":"2015-02-05T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2015-02-05T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:25:26","slug":"carson-ellis-on-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Carson Ellis on <em>Home<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/Carson-Ellis-photo-credit-Autumn-de-Wildeforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The more I worked on this book, the closer I felt to it. It\u2019s about homes: the ways they&#8217;re different and the ways they&#8217;re the same; the questions we ask about the residents of an evocative home and the stories we&#8217;re prompted to invent. It\u2019s also, because I\u2019m in the book myself, about being an artist and celebrating the things that artists are attracted to and inspired by &#8212; all the worlds that we can\u2019t stop thinking about, reading about, conjuring up, visiting, and inhabiting.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carsonellis.com\/\">Carson Ellis<\/a><\/strong> about her newest picture book, <em>Home<\/em>, out on shelves this month.<\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/home-sweet-home-carson-ellis\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>(Also, given that the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced this week, I just <em>had<\/em> to ask her about how Mac Barnett&#8217;s and Jon Klassen&#8217;s <em>Sam and Dave Dig a Hole<\/em>, now a 2015 Caldecott Honor book, is dedicated to her.)<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Carson taken by Autumn de Wilde and used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The more I worked on this book, the closer I felt to it. It\u2019s about homes: the ways they&#8217;re different and the ways they&#8217;re the same; the questions we ask about the residents of an evocative home and the stories we&#8217;re prompted to invent. It\u2019s also, because I\u2019m in the book myself, about being an [&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-3659","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\/3659","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=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}