{"id":4283,"date":"2017-03-02T06:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:18:17","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-charlotte-riley-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Charlotte Riley-Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/03\/20160129_191732forpost.JPG\"><br \/>\n<strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">As a painter by profession\u2014and understanding the commitment of time, having previously illustrated six children&#8217;s books\u2014I had initially declined this opportunity but reluctantly agreed to read the manuscript. My focus immediately shifted. I went from feeling reluctant to challenged, and then on to privileged and ended up at obligated.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to painter and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotterileywebb.com\/\">Charlotte Riley-Webb<\/a><\/strong> about her paintings for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygolio.com\/\">Gary Golio&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> new picture book <em>Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song<\/em> (Millbrook\/Lerner, February 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/painting-story-song-charlotte-riley-webb\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week here at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll have some more spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Charlotte Riley-Webb used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a painter by profession\u2014and understanding the commitment of time, having previously illustrated six children&#8217;s books\u2014I had initially declined this opportunity but reluctantly agreed to read the manuscript. My focus immediately shifted. I went from feeling reluctant to challenged, and then on to privileged and ended up at obligated.\u201d * * * This morning over [&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-4283","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\/4283","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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}