{"id":5292,"date":"2021-02-25T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2021-02-25T08:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:13:29","slug":"mornings-with-monet-my-bookpage-qawith-barb-rosenstock-and-mary-grandpre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5292","title":{"rendered":"Mornings With Monet<\/em>: My BookPage<\/em> Q&A
with Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“It is magic.”<\/em>
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“Once I began focusing on Monet, I kept writing drafts that started in his childhood, which is a typical way to connect a young reader to historical biography. I soon realized that Monet\u2019s childhood would bore children, because it was boring me! When I asked myself what I thought a young reader would find interesting, the answer was the boat.
Why would you paint on a boat? How do you paint on a boat?
What happens when you paint on a boat?”<\/em>
\u2014 Barb Rosenstock<\/center><\/p>\n

Over at BookPage<\/em>, I’ve a Q&A with author Barb Rosenstock and illustrator Mary GrandPr\u00e9 about their newest collaboration, Mornings with Monet<\/em> (Knopf, March 2021). It’s a nonfiction picture book, as Barb notes in our Q&A, that begins and ends in four hours and captures Claude Monet one morning (3:30 AM, no less) “on his way to work.” And “work” is painting, from his rowboat (his “studio boat”), on the Seine. It’s a beautifully crafted book, filled with vivid sensory language and richly imagined acrylic illustrations. <\/p>\n

Here’s<\/a><\/strong> the Q&A, and below is another spread from the book. <\/p>\n


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“He wakes to shadows the color of steeped tea, swings his sturdy legs from bed, buttons his pants, shrugs up suspenders, streches a shirt over his broad belly, laces thick feet into tough boots, and grabs a battered felt hat on the way downstairs. This man,
Claude Monet, is rich, famous around the world. He’s on his way to work.
It’s 3:30 in the morning.”<\/em>
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MORNINGS WITH MONET. Text copyright \u00a9 2021 by Barb Rosenstock. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2021 by Mary GrandPr\u00e9 and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It is magic.”(Click spread to enlarge) “Once I began focusing on Monet, I kept writing drafts that started in his childhood, which is a typical way to connect a young reader to historical biography. I soon realized that Monet\u2019s childhood would bore children, because it was boring me! When I asked myself what I thought […]<\/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-5292","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\/5292","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=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}