[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-choose-your-own-silly-superpower-at-chip-lit-fest":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"You can see one of my \u003Ci>many\u003C/i> splendid superhero costumes as seen in this little peek at one of the back pages in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/9781407124063/isbn/Superkid-by-Claire-Freedman.html\">\u003Ci>SUPERKID\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, my upcoming book with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.clairefreedman.co.uk/\">Claire Freedman\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superkid_superhero_costume_zpsa4349cc4-0a043311d8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>What would you like your silly superpowers to be?\u003C/b> If you're anywhere near \u003Cb>Oxfordshire on Saturday, 20 April\u003C/b>, come join me at the \u003Ca href=\"http://chiplitfest.com/index.asp\">Chipping Norton Literary Festival\u003C/a>! I'll draw, you'll draw, we'll get very silly! The event's free, but you need to \u003Ca href=\"http://chiplitfest.com/events_cyp.asp\">book tickets here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://chiplitfest.com/events_cyp.asp\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chiplitfest_1_zps91ef3f58-05ec33c03a.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nTo get you thinking about your own, here are some \u003Cb>examples of silly superpowers\u003C/b> I've drawn in the past. (I'm going to call them 'silly superpowers' instead of 'stupid superpowers', I think, while working with the kids, so they don't think I'm saying their ideas are stupid. Just VERY SILLY.) \u003Cb>\u003Cfont size=\"3\">Leave an especially good suggestion in the comments with your name and it might inspire me to draw it and post it here!\u003C/font>\u003C/b> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stupidsuperpower1_bears-200f4ec983.gif\">\\r\n\u003C!--more CLICK HERE FOR MORE UNDER THE CUT!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superpower_northfield-63091c5d79.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superpower_philip_ardagh-5c413fb4fe.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I'm super-pleased to see they've made me the featured children's author on the Chip Lit Festival's homepage! Well, they said they'd feature me because I'm tall, but insisted I'd have to grow a beard and take a nom-de-plume. (The things I do for my art, eh?) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://chiplitfest.com/index.asp\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chiplitfest_McArdagh_zpsc922faa7-5511868acf.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: Some good stuff already in from Twitter! Keep 'em coming! :D\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sillysuperpowers_twitter1a_zpsc2ef50bf-122d5a4406.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sillysuperpowers_twitter1b_zpsadd4ae8a-ed8a874c63.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sillysuperpowers_twitter2_zps011feb07-433dc06b43.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>(You can follow the festival at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChipLitFest\">@ChipLitFest\u003C/a>!)\u003C/i>","2013-03-15T07:45:00.000Z","choose-your-own-silly-superpower-at-chip-lit-fest",[],"choose your own silly superpower at chip lit fest!",1776628724863]