[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-i-played-the-shape-game":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"It's not a bad little set of online tools, really. You, too, can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktime.org.uk/show/flash_pages/Families/Games/Shape-game\">play the shape game!\u003C/a> I wish there was an online gallery to see other people's shapes, but a whole bunch of famous illutstrators have painstakingly transferred the game to real paper \u003Ca href=\"http://donations.ebay.co.uk/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=9805&name=&id=9805&status=102&categoryId=550&type=NONPROFIT&itemId=&pageSize=10&pageIndex=1&sortOrder=11#buynp\">on sale on Ebay\u003C/a> in support of the \u003Cb>Rainbow Trust Children's Charity\u003C/b>. (You can see pictures by the likes of Anthony Browne, Axel Scheffler, Jane Ray, Rob Ryan, Lucy Cousins, and even non-illustrator people such as Philip Pullman, Anthony Horowitz and Jo Brand. (Thanks to \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/Booktrust\">Booktrust\u003C/a> for Tweeting it.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktime.org.uk/show/flash_pages/Families/Games/Shape-game\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/shapegame-7c3bb04dc6.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd you can now see \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/caption/62162.html\">the timetable\u003C/a> for \u003Cb>this weekend's \u003Cfont size=\"3\">Caption comics festival\u003C/font>\u003C/b>! It's going to be fabulous! Come along and hear talks by \u003Cb>Melinda Gebbie, P.J. Holden, Sydney Padua, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tozocomic.com\">David O’Connell\u003C/a>, Dino-Saw-Us, Paul Duffield, John Miers, Paul Cornell\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Sydney Padua\u003C/b>, plus workshops by \u003Cb>Jeremy Day\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Al Davison\u003C/b>. And I'll be talking on a DFC Library panel with Oxford-based \u003Ca href=\"http://danse-macabre.nu/\">Kate Brown\u003C/a> (\u003Ci>Spider Moon\u003C/i>) and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> (\u003Ci>Mo-Bot High\u003C/i>), and interviewing \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com\">Darryl Cunningham\u003C/a> about his latest book \u003Ci>Psychiatric Tales\u003C/i>. Come along, it's a great place to mix with comics creators, buy small-press comics and generally feel chilled out and happy.\\r\n\\r\nAnd for kids, I'm doing a picture book \u003Ca href=\"http://www.spacehop.org.uk/\">Space Hop\u003C/a> event at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/children/spacehop/\">Paddington Children's Library\u003C/a> from 2:30-3:30 this Thursday, 29 July. It'll be full of space adventures, tentacles and more googly eyes than you can count.","2010-07-26T12:28:00.000Z","i-played-the-shape-game",[],"i played the shape game!",1776628718487]