{"id":5195,"date":"2020-09-24T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2020-09-23T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T00:34:48","slug":"sending-you-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"Sending You Elsewhere &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/09\/ransome_overground railroadfor7-Imp.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/09\/KadirNelsonCRDavidWalterBanksfor7Imp.jpg\">I&#8217;m sending you over to the <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> Calling Caldecott today. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, we posted a brief chat I had with the 2020 Caldecott Medalist Kadir Nelson, pictured left. If you&#8217;re interested in finding out what his Caldecott year has been like that, that Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=a-conversation-with-kadir-nelson\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>We have also kicked off our book coverage over there. One book we covered this week is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesaclineransome.com\/\">Lesa Cline-Ransome&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2141\">James Ransome&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>The Overground Railroad<\/em>, pictured above. It&#8217;s a book I didn&#8217;t write about here at 7-Imp this year\u2014but one I really like. So, I&#8217;m going to send you over to read Nicholl Montgomery&#8217;s thoughs on the book. That is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=overground-railroad\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our other posts there this year, you can always head right to the blog at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?subpage=Features%20%26%20Opinion,Blogs,Calling%20Caldecott\">this link<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Kadir Nelson taken by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwalterbanks.com\/\">David Walter Banks<\/a><\/strong> and used by permisson of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m sending you over to the Horn Book&#8217;s Calling Caldecott today. Last week, we posted a brief chat I had with the 2020 Caldecott Medalist Kadir Nelson, pictured left. If you&#8217;re interested in finding out what his Caldecott year has been like that, that Q&#038;A is here. We have also kicked off our book [&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-5195","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\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}