[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-world-book-day":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Guess what, I didn't do anything for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.worldbookday.com\">World Book Day\u003C/a> today because Stuart, my sister and I were in Amsterdam! (I'll post sketches and photos soon.) Despite this, we managed to sweep back into London at the end of the day and catch one of our favourite writers, who was in in town for his events. Alyx Price from Scholastic took this photo of \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/03/traction-city-reactions.html\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> getting well McIntyred.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/maryphilipsarah-b0f88ee8d3.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ca href=\"http://marymcintyre.wordpress.com\">Mary McIntyre\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk\">Sarah McIntyre\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of World Book Day, the second-youngest member of my book club (Anneli, named after Anerley rail station) was much more put together than me, dressing up as \u003Cb>Tiny\u003C/b> from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a>'s \u003Cb>\u003Ci>There Are Cats in This Book\u003C/i>\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/anneli_wbd-2e69b8c480.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBefore we left for Amsterdam, I had to do a few things in the studio, and while I was working, my sister and I threw a piece of folded paper back and forth to each other to make a story to send to Philip through the post. It's very rough, but I think it made him laugh.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/marysarah_sheep1-274a4972ad.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/marysarah_sheep2-cf1216c655.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More story and links under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/marysarah_sheep3-6fc3636d64.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/marysarah_sheep4-e28aaf8b99.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd hey, Philip, thanks for the mention in the Telegraph! Here's his \u003Ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8355440/World-Book-Day-Philip-Reeve-on-why-we-treasure-reading.html\">article about World Book Day\u003C/a>. Which I found out about on the same day that Scholastic sent me an advance copy of his latest Mortal Engines book, \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/02/yes-folks-time-has-come-to-talk-of.html\">\u003Ci>Scrivener's Moon\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, through the post. Good times!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8355440/World-Book-Day-Philip-Reeve-on-why-we-treasure-reading.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_telegraph-9fc83c2925.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAs I was looking up the World Book Day link just now, I stumbled across this 20-minute video of Philip reading from his World Book Day short novel, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Traction City\u003C/i>\u003C/b>... \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/20445310\">while he's sitting in a tree house\u003C/a>. I am bookmarking this for later, to work out if it's all CGI effects or if they really had him up in a tree. Too funny.\\r\n\\r\nAnd if you're still wanting to take part in the events, tomorrow's the big \u003Ca href=\"http://www.worldbooknight.org/index.php?option=com_community&view=events&task=viewevent&eventid=129&Itemid=98\">World Book Night\u003C/a> from \u003Cb>5pm-8pm on Trafalgar Square\u003C/b> in London, where you can here short talks by \u003Cb>Margaret Atwood, Alan Bennett, Nick Cave, John Le Carre, Rupert Everett, Mark Haddon, Hanif Kureishi, Graham Norton, Edna O'Brien, DBC Pierre, Philip Pullman, Lemn Sissay\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Sarah Waters\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\nAnd a big hurrah to my studio mates, who are going out to Berlin for the launch of Fleece Officer Lauren O'Farrell's new book in German, \u003Ca href=\"http://whodunnknit.com/\">\u003Ci>Knit the City\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. I want to hear all about it, guys!","2011-03-04T00:16:00.000Z","world-book-day",[],"world book day",1776628719820]