{"id":4115,"date":"2016-08-04T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:11:37","slug":"on-double-treasures-with-rene-colato-lainez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Double Treasures&#8221; with Ren\u00e9 Colato La\u00ednez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/08\/Rene-Colato-Lainezuse.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The beauty of multicultural books is that they open new doors and windows for readers who are outside the culture. They can live, explore, and enjoy other cultures as they read amazing stories. For the majority of children and adults who were born in the United States, an &#8216;alien&#8217; is indeed someone from outer space, and they do not associate it with immigrants or immigrant status. For me, as a writer of multicultural children\u2019s literature, it is always important to write authentic stories where my readers can learn and discover the immigrant experience and the experience of living in two cultures.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to author and teacher <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/renecolatolainez.com\/\">Ren\u00e9 Colato La\u00ednez<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his newest picture book, <em> Mam\u00e1 the Alien\/Mam\u00e1 la extraterrestre<\/em>, published by Lee &#038; Low last month.  <\/p>\n<p>That chat is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/rene-colato-lainez\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Mr. La\u00ednez used by permission of Lee &#038; Low Books.<\/em><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The beauty of multicultural books is that they open new doors and windows for readers who are outside the culture. They can live, explore, and enjoy other cultures as they read amazing stories. For the majority of children and adults who were born in the United States, an &#8216;alien&#8217; is indeed someone from outer space, [&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-4115","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\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}