{"id":4624,"date":"2018-05-10T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2018-05-10T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:57:37","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-rashin-kheiriyeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Rashin Kheiriyeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/05\/Rashinforpost2.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Having international children\u2019s books by authors and illustrators from different cultures and countries helps boost the energy of young readers, since it\u2019s exciting to get to learn amazing new stories from all over the world.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rashinart.com\/\">Rashin Kheiriyeh<\/a><\/strong>, whose newest picture book, <em>Saffron Ice Cream<\/em>, is one she also wrote, her first book in English as an author-illustrator. She also talks about illustrating a new board book about Ramadan, written by Hannah Eliot. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/stories-childhood-rashin\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with a bit more art from each book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having international children\u2019s books by authors and illustrators from different cultures and countries helps boost the energy of young readers, since it\u2019s exciting to get to learn amazing new stories from all over the world.\u201d * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk with illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh, whose newest picture book, Saffron Ice Cream, [&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-4624","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\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}