{"id":167,"date":"2010-10-25T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-10-25T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T14:18:45","slug":"monstered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Monstered!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival<\/strong> on Saturday was awesome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pic of Alexander Gordon Smith<\/strong><\/a> at our Chainsaw Gang<\/strong> Best of Horror<\/strong> Panel<\/strong>, introducing a personal friend of his – the disembodied head of one of the Wheezers from his fantastic Furnace<\/strong> books (click here for my review of those on TBM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rather than have me tell you how much fun I had, here’s a link to a terrific write-up about the event from an audience point of view<\/strong><\/a> – in this case, that of the lovely Liz de Jager of brilliant blog My Favourite Books<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to get the chance to do my thing with Tim, Defender of the Earth<\/strong><\/a> at the Crystal Palace Festival last year<\/strong> (hit this link for video!)<\/a> For its second outing, I was thrilled to see that the Festival has grown and developed in all sorts of cool ways. Check out this Monster Book<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Put together and published (by Pook Press<\/strong><\/a>) especially for the Festival, it features more than a hundred different astonishing monsters created by young people from schools in the area<\/strong>, as well as the work of some top illustrators including my mate Barnaby Richards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When I picked up my copy from the excellent independent bookshop supporting the event The Bookseller Crow on the Hill<\/strong><\/a>, Jon <\/strong>(Bookseller Crow’s proprietor) asked me – a little unkindly, I felt! – if I<\/em><\/strong> was in the The Monster Book.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t, but fellow Chainsaw Gangster and founder of the festival Alex Milway<\/strong><\/a> soon put that right…<\/p>\n

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I particularly love the fish’s expression. And the fact that I’ve still got a tentacle wrapped around my drink<\/strong>. ;D<\/p>\n

More Live Chainsaw Gang Shenanigans<\/strong> to follow later in the week. Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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