[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-china-adventure-comic-part-7":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"But first... exciting news! My ever-so-fab studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> has just seen his hilarious Beano comic \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Derek the Sheep\u003C/i>\u003C/b> go to \u003Cb>THE BIG STAGE!!\u003C/b> Hurrah! Derek with sound and all the fury! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/derek_the_sheep-df8d0d521d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nClick over to Gary's blog, \u003Ca href=\"http://stupidmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/derek-at-abbeyfest/\">Stupidmonsters\u003C/a>, to find out all the details. The play runs \u003Cb>Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and Saturday 13th August, all at 2pm, at AbbeyFest in southwest London\u003C/b>. \u003Ca href=\"http://stupidmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/derek-at-abbeyfest/\">Don't miss it!\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nNow, for my China travel comic: head on over to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/sarah-mcintyres-china-travel-comic-part-7/\">read it on the David Fickling blog\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/sarah-mcintyres-china-travel-comic-part-7/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_chinacomic34-662bf3996f.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Philip Reeve\u003C/b> has written a fascinating article for the \u003Ci>School Library Journal\u003C/i> about Dystopian fiction for teens... is there any room for humour or optimism? And why are grim futures so appealing? \u003Ca href=\"http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/891276-312/the_worst_is_yet_to.html.csp\">Go read it here.\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nSome China food pictures I took \u003C!--more under the cut-->:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/china_pingyao5-0954d4d5fd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/china012-dfc84ebbcb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/china023-d0f48d6858.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd writer \u003Cb>Meg Rosoff\u003C/b> just made me laugh with her blog post about the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2011/08/03/hands-in-the-air-step-away-from-the-kinder-egg/comment-page-1/#comment-4570\">dangers of Kinder Eggs\u003C/a>. Apparently they are banned in the United States, I did not know this.\\r\n\\r\nI saw this label in the train station shop in Beijing and it made me laugh:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/china025-cf7859aad6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/china004-752efe4b67.jpg\">","2011-08-04T08:08:00.000Z","china-adventure-comic-part-7",[],"china adventure comic, part 7",1776628720503]