{"id":5075,"date":"2020-04-06T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:18:16","slug":"my-chapter-16-qa-with-lois-lowryfeaturing-artwork-from-kenard-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5075","title":{"rendered":"My Chapter 16<\/em> Q&A with Lois Lowry
(Featuring Artwork from Kenard Pak)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“A blinding light came. A roar. A vibration. \/ And after that, silence.”<\/em>
(Click image to see poem, “Takeo,” in its entirety)<\/center>
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\nOver at Tennessee’s Chapter 16<\/em> today, they have a double feature for fans of Lois Lowry<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 a review I wrote of her new novel, On the Horizon: World War II Reflections<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, April 2020), illustrated by Kenard Pak<\/a><\/strong>. And they also have a transcription of a phone chat she and I had, during which Lowry talks about writing this book and lots more. <\/p>\n

The interview is here<\/a><\/strong>. The review is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

And here today at 7-Imp are a few illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n


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“We never saw the ship. \/ But she was there. …”<\/em>
(Click image to see poem, “She Was There,” in its entirety)<\/center>
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“Time will not age them. They are boys still …”<\/em>
(Click image to see poem, “Pearl Harbor,” in its entirety)<\/center>
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(Click cover to enlarge)<\/em><\/center>
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ON THE HORIZON: WORLD WAR II REFLECTIONS. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Lois Lowry. Illustrations \u00a9 2020 by Kenard Pak and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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