[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-at-first-i-thought-wow-shes-posh":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Here's the video of our Summer Reading Challenge visit to Leith Library! \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> came along and made a very elegant flip-chart stand. I love it when the boy says, \u003Ci>At first I thought, wow, she’s posh! She had like, that bird in her hair, and fancy blue ribbon… and a dress with lipstick on it… and it was like, really posh.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nPhilip noted that support for Scottish independence has soared since our visit; I hope we weren't a contributing factor...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2800\"/>\\r\n\\r\nThanks again to the kids at Leith Library who helped me come up with the Mythical Maze characters on my previous visit, and to the library team, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TalesOfOneCity\">Edinburgh City Libraries\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/readingagency\">The Reading Agency\u003C/a>, and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TB_Community\">Tesco Bank Community\u003C/a> for organising the day's event.\\r\n\\r\nIn other news, after my meeting at Scholastic yesterday, I stopped into \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Foyles\">Foyles\u003C/a> on Charing Cross Road and found this book looking up at me from the display table. One of my all-time favourite illustrators that I'm always going on about, \u003Ca rhef=\"http://www.davidrobertsillustration.com/\">David Roberts\u003C/a>, and... hats! Oh my word, you guys!!! \u003Ci>Why didn't no one tell me about this book??\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/madame_chapeau3_zpscf92ea0a-a001d1891f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDavid drew his inspiration for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.andreabeaty.com/happy-birthday-madame-chapeau.html\">\u003Ci>Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau\u003C/i>\u003C/a> illustrations from fashion editor \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Blow\">Isabella Blow\u003C/a>, and milliners \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/\">Philip Treacy\u003C/a> (spot the Princess Beatrice hat!), \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stephenjonesmillinery.com/\">Stephen Jones\u003C/a>, and \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schiaparelli\">Elsa Schiaparelli\u003C/a> (note the shoe-on-the-head hat). And David has a little cameo appearance on this spread, too! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/madame_chapeau_zps527181b9-33fd306d65.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLet's zoom in a bit to read the text:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/madame_chapeau2_zps84645c14-79890221f5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe book's writer, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.andreabeaty.com/happy-birthday-madame-chapeau.html\">Andrea Beaty\u003C/a>, and I just started following each other on Twitter, so I went and explored her website and there are treasures to be found! Check out this \u003Ca href=\"http://showstudio.com/project/philip_treacys_feather_salad/process_film\">wonderful video of Philip Treacy making a hat\u003C/a>! I was totally riveted. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://showstudio.com/project/philip_treacys_feather_salad/process_film\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_treacy_vid_zpsa846e854-ad474e2c2b.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nDavid worked as a milliner, and you can tell, in the sculptural way he draws his figures and their patterns. I put together my hats with a bit of lick and spit - I don't really know what I'm doing - but I often daydream of taking a year out of publishing to work as an apprentice for Philip Treacy, with access to all that great kit. I don't generally get excited about the whole fashion industry (and its emphasis on being super-thin), but I make a huge exception for hats, which can be worn by anyone. Andrea's website also has some examples of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.andreabeaty.com/hats-hats-hats.html\">hats that you can make yourself\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.andreabeaty.com/hats-hats-hats.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/make_hats_zps7956f696-d9d55da3e1.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nHat lovers and fashionistas around the world, you're going to adore this book. You can follow Andrea on Twitter as (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/andreabeaty\">@andreabeaty\u003C/a> but sadly, David Roberts is not on Twitter. (He's too busy pumping out a prodigious amount of incredible work. How does he \u003Ci>DO\u003C/i> it??!)\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: Ah! Andrea says David has a Tumblr page! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://davidrobertsillustration.tumblr.com/\">visit it here.\u003C/a>\u003C/i>","2014-09-11T20:52:00.000Z","at-first-i-thought-wow-shes-posh",[],"at first I thought, wow, she’s posh",1776628726815]