[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-a-last-hurrah-for-creepy-house":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I've been doing quite a lot of travel these past few weeks. The squid has been protesting its mode of transport, although it should feel HONOURED to ride in a super-stylish \u003Ca href=\"http://www.booksaremybag.com/\">Books are My Bag\u003C/a> conveyance. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_books_are_my_bag_zps3616b27e-73ee93e577.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut I haven't been taking much time to do my morning sketches, and I really hope to get back into them. So here's one I did this morning:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_monsters_reading_zps4ce8e53b-71f271ca2e.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nIf you're stuck for an idea of something to draw today, try making up a character and show them read out a passage from one of your favourite books. (This passage is from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/goblins.html\">\u003Ci>GOBLINS\u003C/i> by Philip Reeve\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more under the cut!-->\\r\nSo Monday evening, I did NOT talk to monsters (except for the squid), but with some very friendly, well-read children who have completed the \u003Ca href=\"http://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/\">Summer Reading Challenge\u003C/a> through \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SuttonLibraries\">Sutton Libraries\u003C/a>, in Surrey. Here's the \u003Cb>Creepy House\u003C/b> poster \u003Ca href=\"http://www.chrisriddell.co.uk/\">Chris Riddell\u003C/a> designed for this summer's challenge, and I was able to tell the kids and their families that \u003Cb>next summer, I'll be the one doing the art\u003C/b>. (Exciting!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/src_creepy_house_zps86cb2d72-79376a93e4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLook at them, aren't they a great bunch? \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_src_sutton_library_zps12b990ae-64d8d60e22.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd of course, the squid couldn't just stay on my head. Here are some of the awards ceremony presentation team: councillor \u003Cb>Jill Whitehead\u003C/b> with squid, Sutton's head of libraries \u003Cb>Angela Fletcher\u003C/b>, libraries coordinator \u003Cb>Rachel Levy\u003C/b>. And then we managed to wrangle the squid onto \u003Cb>Lord Graham Tope\u003C/b>'s head. (The House of Lords really needs more squids.) Sutton's children's librarian was there, too, and I must hunt down her name, as she's a real library hero.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/src_sutton_library_team_zps00fa5ede-e227ceaadb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA big thanks for inviting me, Rachel, and congratulations to all the young readers who completed the challenge!","2013-10-16T09:46:00.000Z","a-last-hurrah-for-creepy-house",[],"a last hurrah for creepy house",1776628725711]