[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-on-a-desert-island-with-an-armadillo-and-a-book":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Thanks, \u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/interviews1#TOC-Sarah-McIntyre\">Armadillo magazine\u003C/a>, for making me this issue's feature interview! One of the questions was about which books I'd want to have if I was stranded on a desert isle. So in case I ever go missing with an armadillo, I thought I'd leave you this drawing to remember us by. (Here's the \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads_dec2010/armadillo_sketch.jpg\">original rough pencil sketch\u003C/a> before I traced it on the light box, if you want a peek.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/interviews1#TOC-Sarah-McIntyre\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/armadillo-49c4f9520c.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nWe're reading \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twenty-One_Balloons\">\u003Ci>The Twenty-One Balloons\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by William Pène du Bois, which is one of my all-time favourite stories (and his illustrations are pretty fab, too). You can read why I choose it and these other two books \u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/interviews1#TOC-Sarah-McIntyre\">in the interview\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/interviews1#TOC-Sarah-McIntyre\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/desertislebks-92995da850.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThe other two books are \u003Ca href=\"http://www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk/adult.htm\">\u003Ci>Vainglory\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by Geraldine McCaughrean (whom I'm interviewing, along with Candy Gourlay, over at the Hay Festival on 30 May!) and \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down\">\u003Ci>Watership Down\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by Richard Adams.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/interviews1#TOC-Sarah-McIntyre\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/armadillo_mag-8bef4745c1.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nOne more thing: I just realised I'd agreed ages ago to do a workshop for adults on Sunday at the House cafe & gallery in Camberwell. (I used to run it with friends when it was just a gallery, not a cafe.) If you fancy designing a character, playing a story-starter game and making a little book, it's free and you don't need to pre-book. All materials supplied (unless you have some favourite drawing pens and pencils you want to bring along); you might need to buy your own coffee.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Make: Illustration with Sarah McIntyre - Sun, 27 March, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.house-gallery.co.uk\">House gallery\u003C/a>, Camberwell Church Street, Camberwell, London SE5 8QZ, 2-5pm.\u003C/b> (I'll be leading the workshop from 2-4 and you can stay another hour to finish if you like.)\\r\n\\r\nJust as an armadillo side note, my sister and I used to have a friend with a mother in Louisiana (where, apparently, they have armadillos, and rabies is a bit of a problem). Her mother always gave her the stern instruction, \u003Ci>Don't touch the armadillos. NOT EVEN WITH A STICK.\u003C/i> So \u003Ci>'not even with a stick'\u003C/i> is a bit of a catch-phrase for us now.","2011-03-25T12:06:00.000Z","on-a-desert-island-with-an-armadillo-and-a-book",[],"on a desert island with an armadillo and a book",1776628719924]