{"id":4668,"date":"2018-07-05T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:08:33","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-withambassador-zindzi-mandela-and-sean-qualls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with<br>Ambassador Zindzi Mandela and Sean Qualls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/07\/2forpost.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">When our publisher first approached us about doing a children\u2019s picture book, we immediately knew we wanted it to be a family endeavor. Madiba\u2019s legacy is something that is a part of the lifeblood of our family, and it was beautiful to be able to share this story together.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zindzi_Mandela-Hlongwane\">Ambassador Zindzi Mandela<\/a><\/strong> (quoted above and pictured left) and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1653\">Sean Qualls<\/a><\/strong>, pictured right, about their new picture book, <em>Grandad Mandela<\/em>. Ambassador Mandela, the youngest child of President Nelson Mandela, wrote this book with her grandchildren, Zazi and Ziwelene Mandela (ages 8 and 6, respectively).  <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/all-family-070518\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with some of Sean&#8217;s art from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Ambassador Mandela taken by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/julioetorres.com\/\">Julio E. Torres<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;When our publisher first approached us about doing a children\u2019s picture book, we immediately knew we wanted it to be a family endeavor. Madiba\u2019s legacy is something that is a part of the lifeblood of our family, and it was beautiful to be able to share this story together.\u201d * * * Over at [&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-4668","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\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}