[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-new-childrens-laureate-lauren-child":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/262564_original-e63104f600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThrilled about the new choice of BookTrust Children's Laureate! \u003Ca href=\"http://www.milkmonitor.com/\">Lauren Child\u003C/a>'s work represents a wide range of creativity, spanning from writing and illustrating picture books to teen novels. Her drawing style contrasts significantly from the previous fabulous Laureate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.chrisriddell.co.uk/\">Chris Riddell\u003C/a>'s work. With the way they make images, both use incredible skill but while Chris's line work is incredibly intricate, like 'Wow, I could never do that!', Lauren takes inspiration from children's drawing and her work with its mix of deliberately wobbly line and collage may be much more accessible: 'Wow, I could do that!' I love that she's going to encourage children to explore and experiment with stuff they make. She hasn't stuck to one way of working, either; I remember my surprise when she came out with\u003Ci> The Princess and the Pea\u003C/i>, where she'd built fascinating little film-style sets and photographed her figures inside them for the final book images. \\r\n\\r\nLauren has a keen sense of design, colour, pattern and layout, and her line work has a rough energy and humour that I've absolutely adored for well over a decade. I think the first book of hers I read was the Charlie & Lola book \u003Ci>I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato\u003C/i> and the cheeky playfulness of it made me so happy. And her work pushes boundaries; I wrote my MA Illustration dissertation on \u003Ci>Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?\u003C/i> and the way she played with metafiction. \\r\n\\r\nLauren doesn't do much social media, but BookTrust have set up a new Twitter account, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UKLaureate\">@UKLaureate\u003C/a>, and Lauren has a \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LaurenChildandMilkMonitor\">Facebook page here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nBig congrats, Lauren!! You can read \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CarolineC1988\">Caroline Carpenter\u003C/a>'s \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thebookseller.com/insight/lauren-child-being-new-children-s-laureate-564436\">article in The Bookseller\u003C/a> about Lauren's plans for the next two years. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thebookseller.com/insight/lauren-child-being-new-children-s-laureate-564436\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/262177_original-130cae4602.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thebookseller.com/insight/lauren-child-being-new-children-s-laureate-564436\">Read more of the article on The Bookseller website....\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\nYou can watch Lauren talk to a group of school children \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/video/authors-live/lauren-child\">here on BBC Scotland Authors Live\u003C/a>. And here's one of many Charlie & Lola videos, inspired by her books: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4042\"/>","2017-06-07T14:30:00.000Z","new-childrens-laureate-lauren-child",[],"new children's laureate: lauren child!",1776628729073]