[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-its-all-about-bologna-book-fair":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hello! If you haven't yet worked it out from Twitter, the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/en/\">Bologna Book Fair\u003C/a> is rumbling along right now, as I type! It's the biggest children's book event of the year, when more people than you can count all gather to buy and sell foreign rights to publish every picture book you can imagine. I went one year, the fair was amazing, and so was the GELATO. Publicist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/ninadouglas\">Nina Douglas\u003C/a> and I were too busy to go this year, but we were feeling a bit sorry for ourselves, so made our way to sunny Soho and had a quick moment of make-believe at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2:26011/amorino\">Amorino\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_nina_gelato-95b76630ed.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe book fair hasn't designated a hashtag on Twitter for everyone to follow, so people are all over the Internet. You can click on \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23BolognaBookFair\">#BolognaBookFair\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23Bologna2012\">#Bologna2012\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23BBF2012\">#BBF2012\u003C/a> and even \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23BBF12\">#BBF12\u003C/a> to see moment-by-moment what's going on.\\r\n\\r\nAnd we at the Fleece Station studio are represented! \u003Cb>Walker Books\u003C/b> has a taster brochure for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>'s upcoming comic-strip story \u003Ci>\u003Cb>TEENYTINYSAURS\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. I've been watching him work on it and oo-ing and ah-ing, it is amazing. Go ask about the rights, people at Bologna!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gary_teenytinysaurs-ca0d2ba5c0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJust as all this has been going on, we got a lovely e-mail from some Portsmouth University students - \u003Cb>Ryan McBride, Matthew Freeman Carter, Mitchell Jackson, Dale Bennett\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Steven Ellis\u003C/b> at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/32RunProductions/videos\">32RunProduction\u003C/a> - with a video they'd made about our studio! So presenting... \u003Cfont size=\"4\">The Fleece Station, the Movie!\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1423\"/>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQX-zxfNe6I\">\u003Ci>YouTube link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd look! Here's \u003Cb>a little teaser for my next picture book!\u003C/b> I don't know how much I'm allowed to say yet, but this image is in \u003Cb>Scholastic UK\u003C/b>'s Bologna rights guide brochure, so I think I'm allowed to post it:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_superkid-a688c783c6.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here to read more under the cut!-->\\r\nBack to the lovely TEENYTINYSAURS...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gary_teenytinysaurs2-60e4313b65.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd good friend of the Fleece Station, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>, also has a very exciting book just out with Scholastic UK! I've read \u003Cb>\u003Ci>GOBLINS\u003C/b>\u003C/i> and it is brilliant. Martin Chilton at The Telegraph thinks so, too! \u003Ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/9152581/Goblins-by-Philip-Reeve-review.html\">Here's his rave review...\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goblins_philip_reeve-6b24a5564c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd back to gelato, what everyone's \u003Ci>really\u003C/i> thinking about in Bologna. Now it's back to the drawing desk for me, to crack on with that picture book! Ooh, the deadline's not far off now...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_nina_gelatopic1-ec8a1a2a30.jpg\">","2012-03-19T16:38:00.000Z","its-all-about-bologna-book-fair",[],"it's all about bologna book fair!",1776628721604]