{"id":3962,"date":"2016-01-07T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:04:25","slug":"kirkus-q-a-monica-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"<em>Kirkus<\/em> Q &#038; A: Monica Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/01\/Monica Brown_Author Photoforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">These books represent my desire that our multiracial and multicultural children are not considered &#8216;fractions&#8217; but rather celebrated for containing multitudes.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monicabrown.net\/\">Monica Brown<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her newest picture book, <em>Maya&#8217;s Blanket\/la manta de Maya<\/em> (Lee &#038; Low). It was released back in August and illustrated by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_D%C3%ADaz_(illustrator)\">David D\u00edaz<\/a><\/strong>. We also discuss what&#8217;s next on her plate for 2016. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/building-connections-monica-brown\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll showcase some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Monica used by her permission.<\/em><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;These books represent my desire that our multiracial and multicultural children are not considered &#8216;fractions&#8217; but rather celebrated for containing multitudes.\u201d * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk to author Monica Brown, pictured here, about her newest picture book, Maya&#8217;s Blanket\/la manta de Maya (Lee &#038; Low). It was released back in August [&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-3962","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\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}