{"id":9312,"date":"2024-01-30T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:35:42","slug":"philipovna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/philipovna\/","title":{"rendered":"Philipovna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a six degrees of separation kind of day yesterday. I had lunch with Robin Baird Lewis, Brantford born and raised like me, and a book person. She’s the illustrator of the iconic picture book Red is Best, written by Kathy Stinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robin Baird Lewis with three connected books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The middle book in this photo is beautifully illustrated by Robin. She works with people who have specialty book projects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Robin was in town for a few days and emailed to see if we could get together. She had something for me: a book by another fellow book person, Valentina Gal, author of Philipovna<\/a> a novel\/memoir of the Holodomor, which is the same topic as my latest novel, Winterkill<\/a>. Robin and Valentina are in the same knitting group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read Philipovna and LOVED it<\/a>. I was thrilled to get a hard copy of the book from the author herself as I only had the e-edition, and it is such a powerful book. But also, I wanted to share with her, through Robin, another connection that we had, that both of our books had been discussed in\u00a0Mateusz \u015awietlicki<\/a>‘s groundbreaking work on Ukrainian Canadian historical literature for young people. I brought the book to our lunch to show Robin, and will be sending snaps of the pertinent pages so that Robin can read them to Valentina. How nifty is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a six degrees of separation kind of day yesterday. I had lunch with Robin Baird Lewis, Brantford born and raised like me, and a book person. She’s the illustrator of the iconic picture book Red is Best, written by Kathy Stinson. Robin was in town for a few days and emailed to see … Continue reading “Philipovna”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[233,704,832,834,833,609],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-mateusz-swietlicki","tag-philipovna","tag-robin-baird-lewis","tag-valentina-gal","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}