{"id":4621,"date":"2018-05-03T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2018-05-03T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:06:24","slug":"a-moment-with-miss-tillie-mackenzie-and-cozbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"A Moment with Miss Tillie, MacKenzie, and Cozbi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“… I wanted to know every part of this garden. I reached down to feel the ground.
The earth was damp and cool. It felt like it was giving me something I couldn’t see.
‘How did you create this, Miss Tillie?’ I wanted to know.”<\/em>
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I talked to author-illustrator Cozbi A. Cabrera<\/a><\/strong> about her new picture book, My Hair Is a Garden<\/em> (Albert Whitman, April 2018). That is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I’m following up today with a bit of art from the book. Below are the images from the book’s endpapers. <\/p>\n


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MY HAIR IS A GARDEN. Text and pictures copyright \u00a9 2018 by Cozbi A. Cabrera. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“… I wanted to know every part of this garden. I reached down to feel the ground.The earth was damp and cool. It felt like it was giving me something I couldn’t see.‘How did you create this, Miss Tillie?’ I wanted to know.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Last week at Kirkus, I talked to author-illustrator […]<\/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-4621","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\/4621","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=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}