{"id":4483,"date":"2017-11-02T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2021-04-24T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:05:08","slug":"crown-an-ode-to-the-fresh-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“When it’s your turn in the chair, you stand at attention and forget about
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\nI’m following up my Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/a><\/strong> last week with the author and illustrator of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut<\/em> (Denene Millner Books\/Bolden\/Agate Publishing, October 2017), Derrick Barnes<\/a><\/strong> and Gordon C. James<\/a><\/strong>, with some spreads from the book today. <\/p>\n

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“There’s a dude to the left of you with a faux-hawk, deep part, skin fade.
He looks presidential. …”<\/em>
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“… It’s how your mother looks at you before she calls you beautiful. …”<\/em>
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CROWN: AN ODE TO THE FRESH CUT. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Derrick Barnes. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Gordon C. James. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Denene Millner Books \/ Bolden, an imprint of Agate Publishing, Chicago.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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