{"id":4026,"date":"2016-03-31T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2016-03-31T06:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T12:12:04","slug":"a-play-date-with-herve-tullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"A Play Date with Herv\u00e9 Tullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/03\/Herve Tullet_standing with paintuse.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I feel that inspiration is everywhere. You just have to find it. To look, observe &#8212; the streets, the walls, the pavement, the windows, the traffic jams, and so on. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I feel that everybody is ready for this experience, including children. There\u2019s a real connection between art and children. Children don\u2019t know anything, and they are open to understanding everything. That\u2019s their strength. That\u2019s why I feel books can bring children to amazing places.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herve-tullet.com\/en\/accueil.html\">Herv\u00e9 Tullet<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his newest book, <em>Let&#8217;s Play!<\/em> (Chronicle, March 2016). That chat is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/herve-tullet-makes-play\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Herv\u00e9 used by permission of Chronicle Books.<\/em><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel that inspiration is everywhere. You just have to find it. To look, observe &#8212; the streets, the walls, the pavement, the windows, the traffic jams, and so on. &#8230; I feel that everybody is ready for this experience, including children. There\u2019s a real connection between art and children. Children don\u2019t know anything, and [&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-4026","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\/4026","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=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}