{"id":764,"date":"2013-06-04T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:38:14","slug":"introducing-malorie-blackman-britians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Malorie Blackman, Britian&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Book Laureate, and woman of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TxP-1B8Ml1c\/Ua4JAtdQvRI\/AAAAAAAAEBA\/CxXErQG_mT4\/s1600\/Malorie_Blackman_1899494c.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Malorie_Blackman_1899494c.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>I missed seeing this woman in PERSON in Edinburgh by a HAIR two summers ago. I read a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/jun\/04\/first-black-childrens-laureate-malorie-blackman\">Malorie<\/a> Blackman in the UK, and was glad to see some of her work crossing the pond. She&#8217;s been a really vocal and tireless children&#8217;s lit advocate, and that&#8217;s so very needed everywhere, but especially in the UK, I think, where the weight of the history of capital L &#8220;<i>lit<\/i>riture&#8221; makes it hard for YA and children&#8217;s lit to be taken seriously, much less with a positive frame of mind. People tend to think it&#8217;s all Enid Blyton still, and &#8220;How nice that you write those little books, when are you going to write something <i>worthy<\/i>?&#8221; (Although, post JK Rowling, they&#8217;re kind of re-organizing their idea of &#8220;worthy.&#8221; But not by much.) Lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/04\/malorie-blackman-new-children-laureate\" target= _blank>cheering<\/a> going, of course, as the woman herself is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/10062174\/Malorie-Blackman-on-her-favourite-childrens-books.html\" target= _blank>funny, interesting person<\/a> &#8211; and a wholesale Trekkie, which is cool, and, so far, I haven&#8217;t read of anyone pearl-clutching and gasping over her being laureated laurel-ed er, nominated. Well done, Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed seeing this woman in PERSON in Edinburgh by a HAIR two summers ago. I read a lot of Malorie Blackman in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-who-we-are"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7601,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}