{"id":4140,"date":"2016-09-01T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2016-09-01T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:16:15","slug":"jen-bryant-on-six-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4140","title":{"rendered":"Jen Bryant on <em>Six Dots<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/09\/Jen Bryant &#038; Sam photo by Amy Dragooforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Every narrative is the culmination of a lot of experimentation. For this story, I did know that I wanted readers to feel as if they were experiencing a lot of what Louis was going through as he lost his sight and grappled with what the rest of his life would become because of that.&#8221;<\/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.jenbryant.com\/\">Jen Bryant<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her new picture book, <em>Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille<\/a><\/em> (Knopf, September 2016), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boriskulikov.com\/\">Boris Kulikov<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/six-dots-bryant-braille\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. You can see art from the book at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4064\">this 7-Imp post<\/a><\/strong> from earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Jen taken by Amy Dragoo and used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every narrative is the culmination of a lot of experimentation. For this story, I did know that I wanted readers to feel as if they were experiencing a lot of what Louis was going through as he lost his sight and grappled with what the rest of his life would become because of that.&#8221; * [&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-4140","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\/4140","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=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}