{"id":52581,"date":"2025-07-09T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52581\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:12:12","slug":"forum-from-the-archives-mac-barnett-on-why-picture-books-are-real-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52581\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum from the Archives: Mac Barnett on Why Picture Books are Real Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mac Barnett reads from The Shapes Trilogy Series.\u00a0(Photos courtesy of Mac Barnett’s team)<\/p>\n

Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mac Barnett, <\/strong>author of the children’s books “Circle,” “Square” and “Triangle” which have been made into a new animated series “Shape Island” on AppleTV+; his books have won Caldecott honors and E.B. White Read Aloud Awards<\/p>\n

Aida Salazar, <\/strong>children’s book author, her picture books include “Jovita Wore Pants” and “In the Spirit of a Dream”<\/p>\n

Laura G. Lee, <\/strong>children’s book author and illustrator, her picture books are “Soy Sauce!” and “Cat Eyes”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 10 at 9 am Failed to save article Please try again Mac Barnett reads from The Shapes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-52581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114825812275999798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}