{"id":4439,"date":"2017-09-08T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2017-09-08T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:36:15","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-katherine-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4439","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Katherine Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Photo credit by Tim Stoutforpost.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I think change starts with education, and since writing\/illustrating is my background and my skill set, drawing and informational storytelling is what I have to offer kids. The book and the presentations and my blog are tools, but the dream is to contribute to science and education &#8212; to make it dynamic and engaging, one page (or one video) at a time.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/katherineroy.com\/\">Katherine Roy<\/a><\/strong>, pictured above, about her newest picture book, <em>How to Be an Elephant<\/em> (David Macaulay Studio\/Roaring Brook Press), coming to shelves in mid-September. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/wild-katherine-roy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Katherine taken by Brian Futterman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think change starts with education, and since writing\/illustrating is my background and my skill set, drawing and informational storytelling is what I have to offer kids. The book and the presentations and my blog are tools, but the dream is to contribute to science and education &#8212; to make it dynamic and engaging, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}