{"id":1766,"date":"2016-03-31T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:09:54","slug":"beasts-beasts-all-over-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2016\/03\/beasts-beasts-all-over-the-library.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasts! Beasts all over the Library!"},"content":{"rendered":"Orcas and Dinos and Bears, oh my!<\/b>

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A parliament of strange beasties crept and swooped and skittered across Covent Garden last night, as Sidekick ran wild with Birds, Tiger and Terrible Lizards: A Literary Bestiary!<\/u><\/b><\/div>

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We all scrambled down to the fancy Library members club<\/a> <\/b>for a night of mask-making, quizzing, poetry and partying:<\/div>

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A feathered raccoon, a many-eyed bear and a very stripey long-eared bat. Dr Moreau would be proud.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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The event was a celebration of three of our snarliest titles:<\/div>

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JT Welsch<\/b> came down from York for a fantastic set, which brought to life the prehistoric stars of Hell Creek Anthology<\/i><\/b><\/a> (not to mention his splendid tribute to his dog, who couldn’t make it along).<\/div>

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The poets of Birdbook III: Farmland, Heathland, Mountain, Moorland<\/i><\/b><\/a> treated us to their finest animal poetry.<\/div>

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Sarah Hesketh reads some merlin magic. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Chris Jones describes the ring ouzel.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Alison Brackenbury speaks of the fieldfare and redwing<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Christopher Reid on the carrion crow and corncrake.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Dzifa Benson talks little owl and wood pigeon.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Richard Osmond goes all golden eagle<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Chris Beckett takes on the woodlark and red grouse.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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And Jon and K sprinkled some movie magic in there too with a couple of extracts from Lives Beyond Us.<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/div>
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Photo courtesy of Ian McLachlan<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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The rightful quiz victor was Peter Daniels, whose poem addressed the rook.<\/div>

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Thank you to Library<\/b><\/a> for hosting us, Ana Sefer<\/a><\/b> for inviting us, all of the readers, the poets and artists of Birdbook III and the masquerading, dino-drawing, quizzical, wonderful audience. You!<\/div>

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I’ll leave you with the winner of the mask-making. Transforming a bear into an orca, indeed.<\/div>

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