{"id":4084,"date":"2016-06-23T06:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2016-06-23T06:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:16:50","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-daniel-bernstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4084","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Daniel Bernstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/06\/Daniel Bernstrom Author Photouse.JPG\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I wanted language to move and breathe on the page &#8212; to live. And maybe, as a visually-impaired child and adult, I learned how beautiful sound can be. I saw what I could do with words and punctuation. I so desperately wanted to share how words could live and breathe and sing for others, sighted and sightless alike, just as they did for me.\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:\/\/lillylabs.com\/about-dan\/\">Daniel Bernstrom<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his debut picture book <em>One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree<\/em> (Katherine Tegen Books, May 2016), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brendanwenzel.info\/\">Brendan Wenzel<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/heart-heart-daniel-bernstrom\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. Next week at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Daniel used by permission of HarperCollins.<\/em><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wanted language to move and breathe on the page &#8212; to live. And maybe, as a visually-impaired child and adult, I learned how beautiful sound can be. I saw what I could do with words and punctuation. I so desperately wanted to share how words could live and breathe and sing for others, sighted [&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-4084","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\/4084","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=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}