That makes me happier than any news about book sales or anything else. Kids clearly are inspired by these books. My central message is that kids are powerful thinkers, and their ideas are valuable, and that adults don't have all the answers. I know he's interested in kids and art, and in architecture, and in how to give kids bigger ideas. His joyfulness, his lack of pretension, his fascination with balance, are all things I've carried with me all these years.īrad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, is producing a movie version of "Chasing Vermeer." When is it coming out-and have you met Brad Pitt? Alexander Calder has fascinated me forever. I am 100 percent sure that my early exposure to Calder changed the way I think and see. Is that how you go the idea for your new book?īlue Balliett: Yes. NEWSWEEK: You grew up in New York City and saw Alexander Calder's mobiles when you were very young. NEWSWEEK's Karen Springen talks with author Blue Balliett, a fellow Chicagoan, about her latest projects. Meanwhile, "Chasing Vermeer" remains in the news, since Al Roker is featuring it on his "Today" show kids' book club next month, and Brad Pitt's production company is turning it into a movie. Next month Scholastic is publishing her third children's novel, "The Calder Game," which involves a missing boy and a missing sculpture. Two years later, she followed up with another best seller, "The Wright 3," a mystery about Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one - and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.Four years ago, Blue Balliett became a children's-publishing sensation with the debut of her acclaimed first novel, "Chasing Vermeer," about kids searching for a missing Vermeer painting. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers - and to help save the island. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. and the ghosts who must help with the present. įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past.
But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past.
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