![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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