[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-booktastic-adventuremice-2023":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Big thanks to the \u003Ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/BookTasticBedford\">BookTastic BookFest\u003C/a> team in Bedford for hosting a big Adventuremice stage event last weekend! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1326239_original-a85e22221f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere you can see the view to the stage at \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bedfordacademy.co.uk/\">Bedford Academy\u003C/a> as the hall began to fill: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1326925_original-436d4dd3c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">\u003Ci>Photo \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MariaFadget/status/1726197190366724144\">tweeted by @MariaFadget\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/span>\\r\n\\r\nMy co-author \u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I had \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/912214.html\">performed in July for BookTastic for the wider festival\u003C/a> and they'd had such good feedback - children with their noses in books as soon as they left the auditorium, quiet on buses as children kept reading - that organiser \u003Cb>Rachael Rogan\u003C/b> invited us back again for a one-off festival event! Like last time, festival photographer Chiara Mac Call took some incredible photos of the audience taking part. (Thank you so much, Chiara!!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1327575_original-4df9a2f014.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1327806_original-f7d38ef5e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nWe even had a famous children's book author-illustrator in the audience with her family, \u003Ca href=\"https://harrietmuncaster.co.uk/\">Harriet Muncaster\u003C/a> of the Isadora Moon books! (Great to see you, Harriet!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1327326_original-c001ad5d40.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1326767_original-eef2b70bc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo from \u003Ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/harrietmuncaster/\">Harriet Muncaster's Instagram\u003C/a> stories\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nYou can see lots more photos over on the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/booktastic.bedford\">BookTastic Facebook page\u003C/a> or \u003Ca href=\"https://instagram.com/booktasticbedford/\">Instagram\u003C/a>, but here are some more photos of children holding the portraits I drew of them after they waited so patiently in the signing queue. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1328225_original-e6938dfb2d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1328548_original-c937114955.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1328751_original-d5aa646cd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1329088_original-ef7c183109.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1329285_original-1c586cdbe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1329525_original-2b18aa208d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1329788_original-89af378d1e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1330079_original-67eca7282b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1330255_original-23d520c267.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1330614_original-7f9e288190.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nHere's a selfie I took of the incredible team who made this all happen, with books, snacks, a great venue, entertainment for people queuing, the works! That's the photographer Chiara in front, holding the Adventuremice books, on the other side of the camera! And just to the right of her, Rachael Rogan. This time we were able to have dinner with Rachael the evening before (yummy Kerala food at \u003Ca href=\"https://www.thecochinbedford.com/\">The Cochin\u003C/a>!) and have a fabulous proper catch-up. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1326585_original-d4253765e0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHuge, HUGE thanks to everyone on the team who worked so hard!!! And to the sponsors, including the headline sponsors, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/the_harpur_trust\">The Harpur Trust\u003C/a>. You managed to reach so many people, and hopefully inspire the children to read, write, draw and invent their own stories. What a day!! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1330851_original-27935ecd0c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1331084_original-32e37bcd28.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1331633_original-2089965248.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1331449_original-922f560895.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Photo by Chiara Mac Call for BookTastic BookFest\u003C/span>\u003C/i>","2023-11-24T22:30:00.000Z","booktastic-adventuremice-2023",[],"BookTastic Adventuremice 2023",1776628731905]