[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dublins-may-monster-invasion":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hey, can you get to Dublin this May? Awesome thing are going to be happening if you love children's books and drawing. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/\">Children's Books Ireland\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/\">Dublin Writers Festival\u003C/a> are getting together three illustrators - Irish Laureate na nÓg \u003Ca href=\"http://www.niamhsharkey.com/\">Niamh Sharkey\u003C/a>, French artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.herve-tullet.com/en/accueil.html\">Hervé Tullet\u003C/a> and me  - to do all sorts of workshops and monster draws through the city. And you'll be seeing our monsters everywhere! I need to come up with three for the posters, so here's my first monster:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_cbi_monster1_zps27a67bfe-d1809b54f1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the rough draft I submitted to them via Twitter when I was taking the train down to Exeter:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cbi_monster1_zps9e1c6afd-7a410e819d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's one of Hervé's monsters!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cbi_monster_herve_zps6796a3ab-ff4eed3e74.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMore monsters from Niamh coming soon! Even if you don't know about Hervé yet, you might recognise his name from my blog post about the launch of last year's Pop-Up Festival \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/489069.html\">here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/489069.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/popup_herve_zps6e508bc4-a2439667f9.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's a picture from the very first time I met Niamh Sharkey. When I first started illustrating, I was very influenced by her picture book, \u003Ci>The Gigantic Turnip\u003C/i>, and I was slightly nervous when I met her. But she's lovely and not at all scary. (As you can see from these photos of us mucking about in a photo booth on a \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/333152.html\">previous visit\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_niamh_zpsec6f8682-2bcead25e9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThere's a great line-up for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/conference-and-events/\">Children's Book Ireland Annual Conference\u003C/a> on \u003Cb>18 & 19 May\u003C/b>, including \u003Ca href=\"http://jonklassen.tumblr.com/\">Jon Klassen\u003C/a> (author of \u003Ci>I Want My Hat Back\u003C/i>, who just won the Caldecott Medal in the USA!), \u003Ca href=\"http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk/\">Alex T Smith\u003C/a> (massive SQUEE! I'm such a fan, I want to take up all his time while he is there), \u003Ca href=\"http://www.johnboyne.com/\">John Boyne\u003C/a> (who wrote \u003Ci>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas\u003C/i> and lots of other fab books), and I can't wait to find out about the rest... oh, it's going to be brilliant. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/conference-and-events/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cbi_conf_brochurecover_zps463aa2d4-6f29596cec.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nYou can download the whole brochure \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/conference-and-events/\">as a PDF file here\u003C/a>, but I'll give you a few tasters:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/conference-and-events/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cbi_conf_brochure2_zps2bf76377-aef18a3c09.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI'm really excited to meet Jon Klassen for the first time. He likes hats, we will have plenty to talk about. I remember reading \u003Ci>I Want My Hat Back\u003C/i> in the studio with Viv Schwarz and Gary Northfield and falling about laughing as we did the voices. Here's the trailer for his latest collaboration with Lemony Snicket:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2366\"/>\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGva3mF5Ojk\">Direct YouTube link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nCheck back, I'll post a couple more monsters very soon! In the meantime, you can follow \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/dublinwritersfestival\">Dublin Writers Festival Facebook page\u003C/a>, on Twitter as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dubwritersfest\">@dubwritersfest\u003C/a> and CBI at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KidsBooksIrel\">@KidsBooksIrel\u003C/a> to keep on top of updates for what will be happening around the city when Hervé, Niamh and I meet up and simultaneously combust.","2013-03-19T13:40:00.000Z","dublins-may-monster-invasion",[],"dublin's may monster invasion!",1776628724888]