[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-lots-of-bookmarks":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cb>If you're in Britain, tune in tomorrow (Friday) at 6:50pm to \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t5rkp/CBeebies_Bedtime_Stories_You_Cant_Eat_a_Princess/\">BBC's \u003Cfont size=\"3\">CBeebies Bedtime Stories\u003C/font>\u003C/a> to hear their reading of \u003Ci>You Can't Eat a Princess\u003C/i>. Exciting!\u003C/b> (Their \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/presenters/stories/morrismankiestmonster/\">rendition of \u003Ci>Morris\u003C/i> is still online here\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/samglazier_lg-9710f2536d.gif\" width=\"240\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a little drawing I did last night of my friend Sam Glazier, visiting from Thailand. He'd sent me a photo to draw him ages ago, but he doesn't look anything like those photos now, so it was nice to draw him from life. \\r\n\\r\nThanks so much to Scotland's Evening Times, who put \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i> at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features/editor-s-picks/just-a-hop-skip-and-a-jump-to-reading-1.1039437\">top of their list for summer reads\u003C/a>. Yay! \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features/editor-s-picks/just-a-hop-skip-and-a-jump-to-reading-1.1039437\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/eveningtimes-de997deb64.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nCreators of the amazing upcoming DFC Library book \u003Ca href=\"http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/\">\u003Ci>Monkey Nuts: the Diamond Egg of Wonders\u003C/a>\u003C/i> are running a brand new online comic, a rollicking parody of a certain Tolkien classic, called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.theloreofthethings.blogspot.com/\">The Lord of the Things\u003C/a>. I think they possibly are the hardest workers in Britain, those two, I don't know when they sleep. Then again, I've seen Lorenzo draw, he draws very, very fast.\\r\n\\r\nLook out for a review of \u003Cb>Darryl Cunningham's graphic novel, \u003Ci>Psychiatric Tales\u003C/i>\u003C/b> in Sunday's \u003Cb>Observer\u003C/b> newspaper. You can see a lot of his ongoing \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/\">fab comic projects here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nI spotted John Anderson at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/310449.html\">SCBWI talk\u003C/a> I gave last week with David Ficklings, and he's spilled the beans about upcoming DFC plans \u003Ca href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/5QLix?a=share&ref=nf\">over at Down the Tubes comics blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nAnd I'm bookmarking the Forbidden Planet International's \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/bastille-day\">list of recommended French comics\u003C/a> in celebration of Bastille Day. Lots to add to my reading list!","2010-07-15T16:53:00.000Z","lots-of-bookmarks",[],"lots of bookmarks",1776628718443]