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China trip part three

Posted on May 10, 2012 by SallyK

Five hours travelling north from Suzhou to Beijing was a 302 km/h elevated and foggy whizz through countryside rapidly being converted into blocks of flats, roads cut into raw earth and forest of pylons. Luckily all the seats face forward as I … Continue reading →

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China trip part two

Posted on April 2, 2012 by SallyK

Flew north to Shanghai, met by large poet Butler who was also taking part in the three cities’  Beijing Bookworm Festival, in Suzhou, a very boring 2 hours’ drive west of Shanghai along grey motorways.  Suzhou is a delight, a … Continue reading →

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China trip part one

Posted on March 26, 2012 by SallyK

  Big excitement and managed to lose first item of clothing (hat with flaps for when I headed north) as I set off from Heathrow on 5th March, to take part in the first Hong Kong Young Readers Festival. Had to … Continue reading →

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Cartoon Museum/Bloomsbury festival

Posted on October 23, 2011 by SallyK

Ooh I do like getting children to pull faces!  On your way to meet a friend in the park and faced with a lurking Cyclops, what do you do?  Forty children and adults at London’s Cartoon Museum came up with … Continue reading →

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UK’s most northerly book festival

Posted on September 5, 2011 by SallyK

Day One Two taxis, a train and three planes later – it should have only been two, but there was a ‘technical problem’ –  and I eventually arrived in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, 170 km north of mainland Scotland. … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Book Festival Day 3

Posted on August 17, 2011 by SallyK

Thirty fans of Greek Mythological Monsters braved the rain and used caps of invisibility, cartons of lotus juice, bags of wind and flying sandals to outwit monsters in my second drawing workshop at the festival. Great atmosphere, and hugely inventive … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Childrens Book Festival

Posted on August 15, 2011 by SallyK

  Excitement … I’ve arrived at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the sun is shining (contrary to weather forecasts) and I’ve found the Authors’ Yurt in Charlotte Square Garden’s literary tentworld.  I may be only one of this year’s 797 participants, but wearing a … Continue reading →

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