{"id":4504,"date":"2017-11-28T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2017-12-04T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T02:43:05","slug":"nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"Nina<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“Martin’s dream was my symphony. Black and white people could come together in the big dance of life. Hey child, my sweet child . . . Sometimes it seems as if
that dream came true! But the dream is fragile. You have to take care of it.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nI’ve got a review over at BookPage<\/em> of a French import, Alice Bri\u00e8re-Haquet’s<\/a><\/strong> Nina: Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights Activist Nina Simone<\/em> (Charlesbridge, November 2017), illustrated by Bruno Liance<\/a><\/strong> and originally published in 2015. <\/p>\n

That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and I’m following up here today with some illustrations from the book. (Some are sans text.)<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“I don’t remember that, of course. My first childhood memory came a little bit later.
I must have been about three years old. I thought the piano looked like there were
fifty-two white teeth and thirty-six black teeth trapped in the keyboard.
The black keys were smaller.”<\/em>
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“… The notes had to mingle and dance together in the air
so these lies would disappear. …”<\/em>
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“The years went by. I played Mozart, Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy.
I played all the important men in powdered wigs from past centuries.
I was talented. People told me so.”<\/em>
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“When I was twelve years old, our church asked me to give a performance. Mom sewed a beautiful white dress with pleats and pretty ribbons. God knows she was proud \u2014
her daughter was giving a concert!”<\/em>
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NINA: JAZZ LEGEND AND CIVIL-RIGHTS ACTIVIST NINA SIMONE. Copyright \u00a9 Gallimard Jeunesse, 2015. 2017 First US edition. Translation copyright \u00a9 2017 Charlesbridge Publishing. Translated by Julie Cormier. Illustrations used by permission of Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Martin’s dream was my symphony. Black and white people could come together in the big dance of life. Hey child, my sweet child . . . Sometimes it seems as ifthat dream came true! But the dream is fragile. You have to take care of it.”   I’ve got a review over at BookPage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","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=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}