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| Over Mongolia - on the way to China... |
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| to our amazing hotel designed by a cool Japanese architect, the Opposite House in Beijing. The hotel is one of the Bookworm Festival sponsors and... |
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after a long flight from London the food and calm is like therapy before
 Annette Oster, author publisher from Denmark, Olivia (Liu) Chang of SCBWI China and children's publisher Niu Shou. 
 about illustrating characters, focusing on eyes and expressions...
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| ...the youngest child there manages a whole story in less than 20 minutes - beats me! |
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| The following day up early for a long taxi ride through polluted Beijing, past the China TV centre which Beijingers nickname The Pants ... |
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| to what looks pretty forbidding until |
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| I go down the path and hear birds calling in the spring sunshine |
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| and hey, I am pinned up in the school entrance hall! |
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| There's a lovely library and school to explore |
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| and brilliant bilingual kid's self- portraits |
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| and pictures with illustrated text in Chinese |
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| and work by kindergartners (year of the sheep here!) |
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| right up to posters by 11 year olds. I love this one about recycling. |
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| Though there wasn't much time for me get to work with two groups of 6-7s and 8-11 year olds, both groups really drew and before they knew it were creating characters for stories. |
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| Thank you kids and teachers at the happy bilingual Daystar Academy where 90% of the children are Chinese and all are bilingual... |
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| especially to Tahirih Senne-Linton for organising the day and showing me around the school's great Columbia reading and writing programme |
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| Finally special applause to a 10 year old artist there called Lynn who shyly handed me this brilliant portrait of me she did during my session! |
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