{"id":4658,"date":"2018-06-21T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2018-06-21T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:53:36","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-minh-le-and-dan-santat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Minh L\u00ea and Dan Santat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/finalfor7z.JPG\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">While some of the cultural details are slightly different from mine, the story as a whole is very much still true to my experience. I think that\u2019s because, at its heart, it\u2019s a story based on the very real relationships with our grandparents. So there\u2019s a personal emotional truth poured into each page that hopefully comes through for the reader.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/minhlebooks.com\/\">Minh L\u00ea<\/a><\/strong>, quoted above and pictured left, and Caldecott Medalist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3414\">Dan Santat<\/a><\/strong>, pictured right, about their new picture book, <em>Drawn Together<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/drawing-forth-understanding\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with some art from the book, as well as some preliminary images. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Minh L\u00ea taken by Lauren Ackil.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;While some of the cultural details are slightly different from mine, the story as a whole is very much still true to my experience. I think that\u2019s because, at its heart, it\u2019s a story based on the very real relationships with our grandparents. So there\u2019s a personal emotional truth poured into each page that [&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-4658","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\/4658","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=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}