{"id":5227,"date":"2020-11-12T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:42:00","slug":"five-questions-for-jordan-scottand-sydney-smith-at-the-horn-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5227","title":{"rendered":"Five questions for Jordan Scott<br>and Sydney Smith at the <em>Horn Book<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=five-questions-for-jordan-scott-and-sydney-smith-2020\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/11\/for7imppost.JPG\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center><em><font size=2>\u201cIt was a beautiful experience. I actually couldn\u2019t make my way through the book on the first read, as it seemed unreal. \u2026 What\u2019s truly remarkable about his work in the book is that he really understands the stutter on an emotional and aesthetic level. Emotionally, the artwork almost places the stutter in the background, like a low ambient noise, that hums throughout the book. The stutter is present, obviously, but it\u2019s not the entirety of the child\u2019s experience or identity. It\u2019s hard to explain<br \/>how meaningful this is for me.\u201d &#8212; Jordan Scott<\/font><\/em><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Over at the <em>Horn Book<\/em>, I had the distinct pleasure of working with my fellow Calling Caldecott blogger, Martha V. Parravano, to compose some questions for author and poet Jordan Scott and illustrator Sydney Smith about their 2020 picture book, <em>I Talk Like a River<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>This exquisite book is one of my favorites this year. (I reviewed it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookpage.com\/reviews\/25455-jordan-scott-i-talk-like-river-childrens#.X6r7F2hKguU\">here<\/a><\/strong>. And <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5176\">here<\/a><\/strong> at 7-Imp, Sydney shared lots of preliminary images from creating this book.) <\/p>\n<p>Head <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/?detailStory=five-questions-for-jordan-scott-and-sydney-smith-2020\">here<\/a><\/strong> to read our five-questions chat with them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cIt was a beautiful experience. I actually couldn\u2019t make my way through the book on the first read, as it seemed unreal. \u2026 What\u2019s truly remarkable about his work in the book is that he really understands the stutter on an emotional and aesthetic level. Emotionally, the artwork almost places the stutter in the [&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-5227","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\/5227","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=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}