[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-crystal-palace-childrens-book-festival":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Just a peek, since I have way too many photos and video clips to go through tonight, but here's my best photo from today's amazing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.palacefestival.org\">Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival\u003C/a>. This is \u003Cb>Garen Ewing\u003C/b> (creator of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">\u003Ci>The Rainbow Orchid\u003C/i>\u003C/a>) reading the festival's own Monster Book. Doesn't Garen look great with antlers?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen_monsterbook-bd7a9c46cb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI think the highlight of the festival for me this year was the event by writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guybass.com\">Guy Bass\u003C/a> at a marvelous indie bookshop called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.booksellercrow.co.uk\">Bookseller Crow\u003C/a>. He recently went on tour with illustrator David Roberts, which made me WELL envious!) Guy's an amazing performer and had me in stitches. I'll save most of it for later, but here's a reading he did to close the event, a poem called \u003Ci>The Tale of Rodney Head-falls-off\u003C/i>.\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"465\"/>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhgjcB1HpWQ\">\u003Ci>YouTube link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>","2010-10-23T21:53:00.000Z","crystal-palace-childrens-book-festival",[],"crystal palace children's book festival",1776628718952]