{"id":4477,"date":"2017-10-26T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:48:40","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-derrick-barnes-and-gordon-c-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4477","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/10\/Derrick Barnes -- Photo \u00a9 Victoria Blackshearforpost2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/10\/Gordon C. Jamesfor post3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It feels good when I receive messages from mothers, teachers, librarians, and grandmothers, who have said that <\/em>Crown<em> has moved them and their children. It has filled them with pride and speaks directly to their soul.<br \/>That&#8217;s exactly why we do what we do. I want to create a body of work<br \/>that will stay with readers for a long time.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/derrickdbarnes.com\/\">Derrick Barnes<\/a><\/strong>, pictured above left and quoted above, and illustrator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordoncjames.com\/\">Gordon C. James<\/a><\/strong>, pictured right, about their debut picture book, <em>Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut<\/em> (Denene Millner Books\/Bolden\/Agate Publishing, October 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/crowning-achievement\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Derrick Barnes by Victoria Blackshear. Photo of Gordon C. James is courtesy of the illustrator.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It feels good when I receive messages from mothers, teachers, librarians, and grandmothers, who have said that Crown has moved them and their children. It has filled them with pride and speaks directly to their soul.That&#8217;s exactly why we do what we do. I want to create a body of workthat will stay with readers [&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-4477","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\/4477","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=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}