[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-bologna-update":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I wasn't able to go to the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/626824.html\">Bologna Children's Book Fair\u003C/a> this year, but news is still coming in! Mark A. Chambers tweeted this picture of the Oxford University Press stand, with its big \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> poster: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bologna_cakes_poster_zpse71a66d3-319cb3b436.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd my agent, Jodie Hodges, spotted this napkin still hanging on the wall at Da Silvio, the restaurant we went to \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/550549.html\">last year during our visit\u003C/a>! (Here's a \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/Festivals/bologna13_silvio_napkin_zps55162b53.jpg\">close-up of the napkin\u003C/a>; that was a good night.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bologna_seamonkey_napkin_zps4f5dac4f-fb027b1bfd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA couple more peeks at \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i>, my upcoming book with \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>. It's all set in space, so you think there wouldn't be much reason to draw plants, but Pilbeam the robot shows the girl Astra that the ship has a herbarium. So I got to draw cool growing things and robotic insects.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_garden_spread2_zps5ecb7d3d-8f8fef6c8c.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nThe look of this page is very influenced by medieval manuscript illumination and paintings. Which was great fun, mixing it into this futuristic context. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_garden_spread_zps4e1ae7dd-06add2d788.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n(Read more about the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/626824.html\">Bologna Children's Book Fair in an earlier post\u003C/a>.) A couple more fun peeks from Twitter:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Alexrjpaterson\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alex_bologna_zpse58fcb92-650c6e3260.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rosiebrookspics\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rosie_bologna_zps7aa54aa7-0900306aa5.gif\">\u003C/a>","2014-03-25T10:09:00.000Z","bologna-update",[],"bologna update",1776628726257]