{"id":3710,"date":"2015-04-02T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2015-04-02T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:33:14","slug":"margarita-engle-and-rafael-lopez-on-drum-dream-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"Margarita Engle and Rafael L\u00f3pez on <em>Drum Dream Girl<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/03\/Rafael Lopezuse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/03\/Margarita_Engle2use.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk with award-winning author and illustrator duo, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaritaengle.com\/\">Margarita Engle<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafaellopez.com\/#\/editorial\/\">Rafael L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>, pictured above, who have collaborated on a beautiful new picture book biography, called <em>Drum Dream Girl<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, March 2015). Oh my, it&#8217;s gorgeous. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/beating-drum-womens-rights\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and I will have some art and early sketches from it next week here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n<p>p.s. My <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2243\">2011 &#8220;breakfast&#8221; interview<\/a><\/strong> with Rafael is one of my favorites. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><em>Photos of Ms. Engle and Mr. L\u00f3pez used by their permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Kirkus, I talk with award-winning author and illustrator duo, Margarita Engle and Rafael L\u00f3pez, pictured above, who have collaborated on a beautiful new picture book biography, called Drum Dream Girl (Houghton Mifflin, March 2015). Oh my, it&#8217;s gorgeous. That Q&#038;A is here, and I will have some art and early sketches from [&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-3710","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\/3710","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=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}