[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dinosaur-firefighters-at-st-georges-weybridge":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last week I brought my brand-new \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Dinosaur Firefighters\u003C/b>\u003C/i> book to share with St George's Junior School in Weybridge. And we had a lot of fun drawing Dipsy the Diplodocus! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/445082_original-9d5bc849a9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Photo from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/news-and-events/annual-book-fair-monday-14-friday-18-may-junior-school\">St George's Junior School blog\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI hadn't tried this book with any kids yet, and I didn't know if the drawing might be too complicated, but my fears were groundless - they did a terrific job! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/445325_original-3818880b7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Photo from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/news-and-events/annual-book-fair-monday-14-friday-18-may-junior-school\">St George's Junior School blog\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nCheck out some of these great Diplodocus drawings!\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/447278_original-683e407f13.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI love how they all look like awesome Diplodocuses, but they all have completely their own personalities, too. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/447575_original-4113eb7438.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/447982_original-daaf5cfdae.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/406356_original-55e01fe15b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe librarian at St George's, \u003Cb>Angela Disher\u003C/b>, her team of helpers, and the teachers were all brilliant in getting the kids excited for my visit. Preparing kids is at least 50% of what makes a successful Author Visit; when they're excited and ready to hear what I have to present, they get so much more out of it. This time it was... \u003Cb>HATS!!\u003C/b> They'd done some research, realised I love big fancy hats, and all made their own! Here's the fab display in the library: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/445755_original-7b08280847.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere are some close-ups of these hats - a lot of work has gone into these beauties! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/446163_original-a086ab40ea.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/446212_original-682ed41eb0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the fun things of doing Authors Visits is discovering who's been at the school before... can you guess this artist? (Answer at the bottom of the article!)*\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/447048_original-867e34955e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nNot only did the school do great preparation, but they had amazing follow-up, too. In fact, this write-up was posted in the library before I'd even finished signing books and left!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/445459_original-eb5dfe8346.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nTeachers, if you want to download any more free drawing tutorials related to each of my books, you can find them by clicking on each book cover \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/books/\">on my website here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/dinosaur-firefighters/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/448168_original-8c6bfee30e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd you can read more about the visit and see more photos \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/news-and-events/annual-book-fair-monday-14-friday-18-may-junior-school\">on St George's blog, right here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgesweybridge.com/news-and-events/annual-book-fair-monday-14-friday-18-may-junior-school\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/446842_original-3ba12c55d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to Angela Disher, her excellent team, the teachers, and Scholastic UK for putting together this visit! Angela wrote today to say 'Teachers and pupils are still talking about your visit and drawing dinosaurs!!'... which is exactly what I love hearing. Thank you! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/446672_original-490d053a1c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n*Mystery artist: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nicholasallan.co.uk/books.htm\">Nicholas Allan\u003C/a>, writer and illustrator of \u003Ci>The Queen's Knickers\u003C/i> and many other fine books!","2018-05-22T11:21:00.000Z","dinosaur-firefighters-at-st-georges-weybridge",[],"dinosaur firefighters at st george's weybridge",1776628729635]