{"id":4256,"date":"2017-02-02T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2017-02-02T07:48:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T13:48:27","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-joe-todd-stanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Joe Todd-Stanton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/02\/Joe-Todd-Stantonuseforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The books I loved best when I was a kid were always very detailed, so I probably pick narratives that will lend themselves to that style. Pretty much every mythology is so rich in back story and characters that it&#8217;s a great thing to hang a story around, because it gives you an instant, vast visual language you can then place your character into.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk with British author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/joetoddstanton.com\/\">Joe Todd-Stanton<\/a><\/strong> about his debut children&#8217;s book, <em>Arthur and the Golden Rope<\/em> (Flying Eye Books, February 2017), volume one in the <em>Brownstone&#8217;s Mythical Collection<\/em> series. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/modern-mythology-joe-todd-stanton\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have even more art from the book here at 7-Imp next week. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The books I loved best when I was a kid were always very detailed, so I probably pick narratives that will lend themselves to that style. Pretty much every mythology is so rich in back story and characters that it&#8217;s a great thing to hang a story around, because it gives you an instant, vast [&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-4256","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\/4256","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=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}