{"id":5020,"date":"2020-01-07T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:14:38","slug":"my-chapter-16-qa-with-rita-lorraine-hubbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"My Chapter 16<\/em> Q&A with Rita Lorraine Hubbard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOver at Tennessee’s Chapter 16<\/em>, I’ve a Q&A with author Rita Lorraine Hubbard<\/a><\/strong> about her picture book biography, The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read<\/em> (Schwartz & Wade, January 2020), illustrated by Oge Mora<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

And here at 7-Imp today, I’m including some of Mora’s illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“On Sundays she would sit in the congregation, and as the preacher spoke,
she would clutch her family Bible \u2014 the Bible she still couldn’t read.”<\/em>
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“For the next year and more,
Mary put everything she had into learning to read. …”<\/em>
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“Then Mary would stand on her old, old legs, clear her old, old throat,
and read from her Bible or her schoolbook in a voice that was clear and strong.”<\/em>
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THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Rita Lorraine Hubbard. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2020 by Oge Mora and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click to enlarge)   Over at Tennessee’s Chapter 16, I’ve a Q&A with author Rita Lorraine Hubbard about her picture book biography, The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Schwartz & Wade, January 2020), illustrated by Oge Mora. That Q&A is here. And here at 7-Imp today, I’m including some of Mora’s illustrations […]<\/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-5020","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\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}