{"id":341132,"date":"2025-12-12T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/nikki-grimes-and-a-cup-of-quiet\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:29:00","slug":"nikki-grimes-and-a-cup-of-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=341132","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Grimes and A CUP OF QUIET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-8269611960017743626\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgIdzvO2FhlJR1Hc6vkdLVlsHQ6HsXLLyzLNclIJaYbVht3K-1vL8BvPUKQJQbxUVJJOA9R0i9s_-bwgvfbfuCdOsP6W0i1Ody7Eb71DuEr3tUO08USoIOiH2RXMVqRE5OGUOh6XUQQMsL1UcLNhcyH2w0Bv65lHy26I--7nrfhVwVWBWkvJc-5\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1350\" data-original-width=\"1080\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgIdzvO2FhlJR1Hc6vkdLVlsHQ6HsXLLyzLNclIJaYbVht3K-1vL8BvPUKQJQbxUVJJOA9R0i9s_-bwgvfbfuCdOsP6W0i1Ody7Eb71DuEr3tUO08USoIOiH2RXMVqRE5OGUOh6XUQQMsL1UcLNhcyH2w0Bv65lHy26I--7nrfhVwVWBWkvJc-5=w597-h753\" width=\"597\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjThsXntB3-j_zT8_tkui4xLTmN5F24lcWAW2hrm4SmaZZUKoc4vVGSEk836RGiq2-t_odvOllqgS_S7jE4BsugzzB8An9MkTWIDn6I0JqGsrHk3yvy82peHglFb_6zuuXvLytRgKYataFPjfpceL8e8MA5zOpAk-Ukz_q0CVCotJ73uXic-xkn\/s391\/ph_grimes_nikki_300px_72dpi_RGB.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"391\" data-original-width=\"300\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjThsXntB3-j_zT8_tkui4xLTmN5F24lcWAW2hrm4SmaZZUKoc4vVGSEk836RGiq2-t_odvOllqgS_S7jE4BsugzzB8An9MkTWIDn6I0JqGsrHk3yvy82peHglFb_6zuuXvLytRgKYataFPjfpceL8e8MA5zOpAk-Ukz_q0CVCotJ73uXic-xkn\/w213-h277\/ph_grimes_nikki_300px_72dpi_RGB.jpg\" width=\"213\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo credit: Marchel Hill<\/span>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>I&#8217;m so happy to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkigrimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Grimes<\/a> to the blog today.<\/b> <\/span>I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of hers for YEARS. She&#8217;s won nearly every imaginable award including a lifetime achievement award from NCTE for her poetry and from ALSC and from CSK for her entire body of work. She&#8217;s a legend! So many amazing works from her poetry collections, novels in verse, picture books, and a memoir. So many of her works are landmark books, like her prose-poetry blending in <i>Bronx Masquerade<\/i>, her spunky girls Danitra Brown and Dyamonde Daniel, her novels in verse for middle grade readers like <i>Garvey&#8217;s Choice <\/i>(now also a graphic novel), her golden shovel poem collections like <i>One Last Word<\/i>, her powerful memoir, <i>Ordinary Hazards<\/i>, her picture book biographies like <i>Talkin&#8217; About Bessie<\/i>&#8212; I could go on and on and on. And she&#8217;s still going strong!\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Her newest book debuts April 15 and I&#8217;m so happy to be part of the virtual book tour to help launch it. <i><b>A Cup of Quiet<\/b> <\/i>is a lyrical picture book about a loving grandma and imaginative granddaughter as the little girl gathers all the quiet noises she discovers in her backyard garden and gifts that &#8220;cup of quiet&#8221; to her grandma. I asked Nikki four questions to explore a bit of background about this gem of a book Here are her\u00a0thoughtful, interesting responses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: arial;\"><b>1. Where did the idea for A Cup of Quiet come from?<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0CyOpThQuz_WYX2qIfNW91bzFICSf_dnJDDVrR2DDj1YJQQuLCRM3ALMbsvAB1AQwQn96KCp14m44RJGxwDNz3hXdfHKj0ej0La2JKHxlqRRiHibtym0HYdtCgQ0YYiS6Gn8t3AtBoFbEJpTtDOccbbL6bJv74oOQW2kiIhrSExxBwICD_IhR\/s3075\/CupOfQuiet_cvr_au-line_1.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3075\" data-original-width=\"3075\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh0CyOpThQuz_WYX2qIfNW91bzFICSf_dnJDDVrR2DDj1YJQQuLCRM3ALMbsvAB1AQwQn96KCp14m44RJGxwDNz3hXdfHKj0ej0La2JKHxlqRRiHibtym0HYdtCgQ0YYiS6Gn8t3AtBoFbEJpTtDOccbbL6bJv74oOQW2kiIhrSExxBwICD_IhR\/w369-h369\/CupOfQuiet_cvr_au-line_1.jpg\" width=\"369\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Silence and quiet have grown increasingly important to my work over the years, and so I have long been attentive to both, and have particularly mulled over the difference between the two.\u00a0Silence is refreshing, but I relish the quality of quiet found in nature.\u00a0I wanted to celebrate that.\u00a0Nature&#8217;s quiet\u2014which can be quite noisy, if you&#8217;re paying attention\u2014is a source of both inspiration and calm.\u00a0It is musical, rhythmic, and dynamic.\u00a0It is, in fact, the very stuff of poetry.\u00a0And it can be a great source of healing, if we allow ourselves to take it in.\u00a0I wanted to write a story that would allow readers to experience a moment of that in a book. And who better to orchestrate such a moment than a grandmother?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>2. The illustrations are almost as lovely and lyrical as the narrative.\u00a0\u00a0Were you able to consult with the illustrator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.painted-words.com\/portfolio\/cathy-ann-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Ann Johnson<\/a>, in creating this book?<\/b><\/span><o:p\/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I never consult with my illustrators because I dare not interfere with their creative process. The minute an author does that, you risk inhibiting the artist&#8217;s creativity.\u00a0That&#8217;s one bell you cannot un-ring. Anything you say creates a boundary the artist may not be able to circumvent and, thereby, limits the possibility of what an artist might have been able to create, or which wonderful, fantastical direction the art might have taken.\u00a0Instead, I focus on being involved in the selection of the artist.\u00a0If I trust that the style and sensibility of an artist&#8217;s work is right for my book, then I trust them to interpret my story, and to bring their own, complementary visual narrative to the party.\u00a0That is very much what happened here with the luminous work of <b>Cathy Ann Johnson.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaPK9zn-wdUWA6Z3E8eLo04SHH-jIx9iuJlnbvwQUjE_3-Q3kWAVbOTm06DuRW-B9Vo-FH7ob_SpaY7eu91djFNeAvcZYIL2vvTIKjSEuDmf-YtYps6gy2LI1HNIoBnPtWzRbxK_Cmf9_5VEhSL2MMxyuHOPNBejcW_C-K9fGpaarG_-HugThd\/s1806\/Cup%20of%20Quiet%20PAGE.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"898\" data-original-width=\"1806\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaPK9zn-wdUWA6Z3E8eLo04SHH-jIx9iuJlnbvwQUjE_3-Q3kWAVbOTm06DuRW-B9Vo-FH7ob_SpaY7eu91djFNeAvcZYIL2vvTIKjSEuDmf-YtYps6gy2LI1HNIoBnPtWzRbxK_Cmf9_5VEhSL2MMxyuHOPNBejcW_C-K9fGpaarG_-HugThd\/w640-h316\/Cup%20of%20Quiet%20PAGE.png\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"color: red; font-family: arial;\"><b>3<\/b>. <b>You have so many loving grandmas in this picture book and in your poetry.\u00a0\u00a0Can you share memories of special grandmas or grandma friends?<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The grandma in this book is very much a grandmother of my imagination, as are many of the grandmothers in my stories and novels in verse. I only had one grandmother\u2014my mother&#8217;s mother\u2014and she was nothing like the grandmas of my imagination, or the grandmother in\u00a0<i><b>A Cup of Quiet<\/b><\/i>\u2014except that she was equally stylish.\u00a0But she was very practical, not given to playfulness, or games of imagination, or overt expressions of emotion.\u00a0She had a sharp tongue and would routinely whip out a pithy cultural colloquialism that would stop you in your tracks. Say something that she considered silly, or foolish, and she&#8217;d cut you off you with &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you use your head for something other than a hat-rack?&#8221; This was a pragmatic, no-nonsense grandma who had no time for hanging out in the garden with her granddaughter or talking about imaginary cups of quiet. So, I suppose I&#8217;ve lifted elements of grandmas I&#8217;ve encountered in stories and films, or observed in the lives of people around me.\u00a0They all helped me conjure up the grandmother in\u00a0<i>A Cup of Quiet.<o:p\/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><i><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>4. Which of your previous poems might you pair with this picture book?<\/b><\/span><\/i><o:p\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQLKUJC_MBsVMOMMz0gc0cwHBOdtkaM0hMEh8ep2hvzqQpi_QAR5DV2Q-9W1utkIZ1yEqiC_8PNfLMEGpSoVTMhAvlZUM40loHl8iK3iuLJ46HkRMdgSjAAe0P8o7QKCkDhKzhw5YthwDj54gFnP2wzQd0aGarRz9RvoR0f6ap4SQyAZTJGGmK\/s1500\/81yVLGtyEJL._SL1500_.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"1003\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQLKUJC_MBsVMOMMz0gc0cwHBOdtkaM0hMEh8ep2hvzqQpi_QAR5DV2Q-9W1utkIZ1yEqiC_8PNfLMEGpSoVTMhAvlZUM40loHl8iK3iuLJ46HkRMdgSjAAe0P8o7QKCkDhKzhw5YthwDj54gFnP2wzQd0aGarRz9RvoR0f6ap4SQyAZTJGGmK\/w116-h173\/81yVLGtyEJL._SL1500_.jpg\" width=\"116\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><b>&#8220;Pineapple Surprise&#8221;<\/b> is a poem I wrote for\u00a0<i><b>Food Fight,\u00a0<\/b><\/i>an anthology of food poems edited by Michael J. Rosen.\u00a0\u00a0I referenced it again in my memoir,\u00a0<i><b>Ordinary Hazards.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Pineapple Surprise&#8221; is not a poem about nature, but it is a poem about a grandmother&#8217;s love for her granddaughter, and how that young girl comes to appreciate the particularly thoughtful, time-consuming, concrete way her grandmother\u2014my grandmother\u2014chose to demonstrate that love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiQeHCGbydaC5IHV3ky52NqYPz1auk4Mb7UYIpzYBv-soMjLbWgkiH7B46O_e4Hv2PmBxm18vybtDuqki_e2F4lM59N7MJucyyLJWjrmHvtLw3CxFtrT1b6AjgcxF_FcqTCibMzcNV6gmVZvrszTaRDfI3aeFhDnXcseovS6J80o1gMwXsXIbS-\/s3200\/Untitled%20design.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2360\" data-original-width=\"3200\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiQeHCGbydaC5IHV3ky52NqYPz1auk4Mb7UYIpzYBv-soMjLbWgkiH7B46O_e4Hv2PmBxm18vybtDuqki_e2F4lM59N7MJucyyLJWjrmHvtLw3CxFtrT1b6AjgcxF_FcqTCibMzcNV6gmVZvrszTaRDfI3aeFhDnXcseovS6J80o1gMwXsXIbS-\/w640-h472\/Untitled%20design.jpeg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/span>As a grandma myself, I love this look at the intergenerational love between these two characters. <b><i>A Cup of Quiet<\/i><\/b> is a lovey book to read aloud&#8211; with its evocative illustrations and perfectly paced narrative. It could prompt a walk together outside, a heightened awareness of the noises around us, and a closer bond between the two. Check it out!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: arial;\">Now head on over to <i><a href=\"https:\/\/irenelatham.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Live Your Poem<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>where the lovely poet <b>Irene Latham<\/b>\u00a0is hosting our <b>Poetry Friday <\/b>gathering. See you there!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><o:p\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Marchel Hill\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy to welcome Nikki Grimes to the blog today. I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of hers for YEARS. She&#8217;s won nearly every imaginable award including a lifetime achievement award from NCTE for her poetry and from ALSC and from CSK for her entire body of work. She&#8217;s a legend! 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