{"id":4673,"date":"2018-07-12T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:55:30","slug":"grandad-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"Grandad Mandela<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘So apartheid was over?’ asked Ziwelene. ‘That’s right. And do you know how he did it?
He got his enemies to sit with him around a table.'”<\/em>
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\nI’ve some spreads today from Ambassador Zindzi Mandela’s<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator Sean Qualls’<\/a><\/strong> Grandad Mandela<\/em>, which Mandela wrote with her grandchildren Zazi and Ziwelene. This is a follow-up to a Q&A I did last week<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> with Ambassador Mandela and Sean. <\/p>\n

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“One day, Zazi and Ziwelene were playing at Zindzi’s house when they found a photograph. It was someone they remembered very well. …”<\/em>
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“‘Big Mummy and Grandad Mandela were strong people because of how they grew up.'”<\/em>
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“‘Do you miss Grandad Mandela?’ asked Ziwelene. …”<\/em>
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“‘You are both doing the same thing as Grandad Mandela.'”<\/em>
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GRANDAD MANDELA \u00a9 2018 Quarto Publishing plc. Text \u00a9 2018 Mandela Legacy. Illustrations \u00a9 2018 Sean Qualls and used by permission of the publisher, The Quarto Group, Minneapolis.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘So apartheid was over?’ asked Ziwelene. ‘That’s right. And do you know how he did it?He got his enemies to sit with him around a table.’”(Click spread to enlarge)   I’ve some spreads today from Ambassador Zindzi Mandela’s and illustrator Sean Qualls’ Grandad Mandela, which Mandela wrote with her grandchildren Zazi and Ziwelene. This is […]<\/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-4673","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\/4673","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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}