{"id":1144,"date":"2014-08-28T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T05:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2014-08-28T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:48:18","slug":"sneaky-peeks-video-15-duncan-tonatiuh-discusses-separate-is-never-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Peeks Video #16: Duncan Tonatiuh discusses Separate Is Never Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books.]<\/p>\n<p>When we asked author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh if he&#8217;d like to tell us a bit about his newest picture book,\u00a0<em style=\"color: #000000;\">Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez &amp; Her Family\u2019s Fight for Desegregation,\u00a0<\/em>he sent us not one, but <em>three<\/em> videos &#8212; two of which are included here below.<\/p>\n<p>The third video, which is a demonstration of how he makes his art, is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w1avdB7jHcg&amp;feature=youtu.be\">this link<\/a>\u00a0for those who are interested in more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Separate Is Never Equal\u00a0<\/em>is a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #383838;\">\u201ccompelling story told with impeccable care\u201d &#8212; in the words of the <em>Kirkus<\/em> review. Speaking of <em>Kirkus<\/em>, Jules chatted with Duncan at their site back in May; that link is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/fight-desegregation\/\">here<\/a>. Below is more about the book and the true story behind it from Duncan himself:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HL-op6gx1Mc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To see some more art and sketches from the book, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3421\">this June 7-Imp post<\/a>. You can also\u00a0read Betsy&#8217;s review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2014\/07\/15\/review-of-the-day-separate-is-never-equal-by-duncan-tonatiuh\/\">here<\/a> at her site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book\u00a0Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature\u00a0by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books.] When we asked author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh if he&#8217;d like to tell us a bit about his newest picture book,\u00a0Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}