{"id":673,"date":"2012-01-24T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatelusiveline.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/big-breakfasting"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:33:13","slug":"big-breakfasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/big-breakfasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Breakfasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2005 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haunters-spiral-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haunters-spiral-293x300.jpg 293w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haunters-spiral.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>I went to the Chicken House\u2019s Big Breakfast event last week. And look, I spotted a copy of my book! Well, okay, it was just a spiral-bound printout, but this is the first time I\u2019ve seen anything of <\/span><i style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haunters<\/i><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> on paper, so it was still memorable. I was even asked to sign a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">These Big Breakfasts are all about bringing authors and their books together with interested parties from the world of children\u2019s literature. There were croissants, there were readings, and there was the great Barry Cunningham to make it all sparkle.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chicken House\u2019s list for this year seems very strong, and a few titles particularly caught my eye: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmlarwood.com\/book\/\"><i>Freaks<\/i> by Kieran Larwood<\/a> (last year\u2019s Times Chicken House Fiction Competition winner), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Girl-About-Time-Book-Ruby\/dp\/190642764X\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1327400820&amp;sr=8-3\"><i>Girl About Time<\/i> by Kerstin Geir<\/a> (best-selling time slip romance first published in German in 2009), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Floors-Patrick-Carman\/dp\/1906427909\"><i>Floors<\/i> by Patrick Carman<\/a> (madcap goings-on in the barmiest hotel in the world) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doublecluck.com\/books\/muncle-trogg-and-the-flying-donkey\"><i>Muncle Trogg and the Flying Donkey<\/i> by Janet Foxley<\/a> (the sequel to the wonderful <i>Muncle Trogg<\/i>, and which the author kindly inscribed for my son (who adores Muncle and anything to do with Mount Grumble)). 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