[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dublin-writers-festival-monster-invasion":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm already getting reports that monsters are invading Dublin! Check out these two, which seem to have absorbed \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/davidmaybury\">David Maybury\u003C/a> and \u003Cb>Aoife Murray\u003C/b> from Children's Book Ireland:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin_monsters1_zps943a492a-8ac524208d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'll be in Ireland for a week, and SO MUCH IS GOING ON then. I'll be working together with France's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.herve-tullet.com/en/accueil.html\">Hervé Tullet\u003C/a> and Irish Children's Laureate na nÓg \u003Ca href=\"http://www.niamhsharkey.com/\">Niamh Sharkey\u003C/a> on all sorts of fun workshops and events. Here's a sampling, but visit the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/event/get-drawn-in-school-events\">Dublin Writers Festival website\u003C/a> to find out about school events, and the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/blog/get-drawn-in/\">CBI's GET DRAWN IN! website\u003C/a> to find out about these and a talk I'll be giving with Hervé, Niamh and Italian illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sarafanelli.com/\">Sara Fanelli\u003C/a>. And, of course, there's the \u003Cb>CBI Annual Conference on 18 & 19 May\u003C/b>, featuring \u003Ca href=\"http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk/\">Alex T Smith\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://jonklassen.tumblr.com/\">Jon Klassen\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.johnboyne.com/\">John Boyne\u003C/a>, comic creators \u003Ca href=\"http://alannolan.ie/\">Alan Nolan\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://irishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Rory_McConville\">Rory McConville\u003C/a>, Brazilian writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=903\">Ana Maria Machado\u003C/a> and more: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/conference-and-events/\">details here\u003C/a>.\\r\n \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/event/get-drawn-in-school-events\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dubwritefest_blurb1_zps1b14a9e8-5fb6ea7d5e.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIf you're in Dublin, look out for these street banners and take a photo to post on \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Childrens-Books-Ireland/137934348937\">Children's Books Ireland Facebook page\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/event/get-drawn-in-school-events\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dubwritefest_blurb2_zps2701315f-d9bcb4c73f.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin_monsters2_zps4667d973-c2de58c628.jpg\">","2013-04-16T07:10:00.000Z","dublin-writers-festival-monster-invasion",[],"dublin writers festival: monster invasion",1776628725009]