{"id":4445,"date":"2017-09-14T07:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:12:50","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-patricia-maclachlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Patricia MacLachlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/09\/Patricia-McLachlanforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I think that my slow process of becoming blind is a great reason for this book. When I now look in the mirror, I look like an impressionist painting &#8212; interesting perhaps, but not clear. What I do see is my childhood, sharp and clear. <\/em>Someone Like Me<em> grew out of my memories, a wonderful world that now serves me.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to Newbery Medalist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_MacLachlan\">Patricia MacLachlan<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her newest picture book, <em>Someone Like Me<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, July 2017), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrissheban.com\/chris\/home.html\">Chris Sheban<\/a><\/strong>, and much more.  <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/mining-memories-patricia-maclachlan\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here with some of Chris&#8217;s art from the book. (I also have a lovely, art-filled interview with Chris I&#8217;m eager to post but which I&#8217;m ridiculously behind on. I hope to post that soon!) <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think that my slow process of becoming blind is a great reason for this book. When I now look in the mirror, I look like an impressionist painting &#8212; interesting perhaps, but not clear. What I do see is my childhood, sharp and clear. Someone Like Me grew out of my memories, a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}