[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-ireland-mountains-to-sea-2019":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Reeve & McIntyre LOVE \u003Ca href=\"http://mountainstosea.ie/\">Mountains to Sea\u003C/a> festival, where everyone's excited about books and we get so well looked after! Kevin loved making the trip to Ireland for the first time.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/676816_original-37bb4eb6fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by festival photographer \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GHollandPhoto\">Ger Holland\u003C/a>, plushie Kevin by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chloe_applin\">Chloe Applin\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nOur Roly-Poly Flying Pony even had a brief stint on Irish telly, on RTÉ2's news2day programme! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4443\"/>\\r\n\\r\nIn the month leading up to the festival, we'd been working with journalist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kidscultureie\">Sara Keating\u003C/a>, who liased with several schools for the festival's Adopt an Author scheme. Philip and I set tasks for the children and when we arrived at the \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DLR_Libraries\">DLR Lexicon library\u003C/a> in Dun Laoghaire, we got to see their work! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/676927_original-3d23fa50e4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe first task was to come up with a pet they had, or really wanted, name it, and make it extra special by giving it wings, just like our Roly-Poly Flying Pony. Many of them designed houses for their pets. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/678227_original-febe5ddda3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/678558_original-260b46f97d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/677183_original-cae6bb2d7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/678085_original-e35deb8ad6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnother task was to draw a map of the area where their magical pet lives. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/677460_original-006411d652.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/677691_original-3bbbd1313a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd finally, they collaborated with classmates to make eight-page story books, with covers, following some tips Philip and I gave them. Sara brought them to dinner the first night and we had a read through all of them. There were a few real crackers in there! Let me show you two of them that really made us laugh; be sure to work out all the words, it's worth it. Start with \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Cole & the Police\u003C/b>\u003C/i>, by Una and Franek: \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/678708_original-6027198362.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Linky & the Medal\u003C/b>\u003C/i>, by Ella and Toby:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/679226_original-a7d2111ec5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThen we did a big Reeve & McIntyre stage event in the Pavilion Theatre, and it was wonderful because so many of the children knew \u003Ci>The Legend of Kevin\u003C/i> well, and had even looked up \u003Ca href=\"https://youtu.be/EB3qI-WlDsA\">The Kevin Song\u003C/a> and could sing along! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/680393_original-89b3416afb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Photo tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mountainstosea\">@mountainstosea\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nA lot of them had already learned how to d\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-legend-of-kevin/\">raw Kevin from my website\u003C/a>, so we taught them how to draw Sea Monkeys, which also feature in the story. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/680662_original-0a4fb517db.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Photo tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GutterDalkey\">@GutterDalkey\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nHere's a fab picture a girl gave us at the signing afterward. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/680754_original-e8b15793e7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nBig thanks to Bob & Marta from the Gutter Bookshop and Gutter Dalkey, who stocked books for us on Saturday at the Pavilion and Sunday at The Studio theatre in the Lexicon! They both tweeted selfies with Kevin...\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/679734_original-aa90267420.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gutterbookshop\">@GutterBookshop\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GutterDalkey\">@GutterDalkey\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/679936_original-a90f19da6a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Dun Laoghaire in the sun, the view toward the sea from my hotel balcony.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/681088_original-3589731d6f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nLovely writer \u003Ca href=\"https://www.sarahwebb.info/\">Sarah Webb\u003C/a>, who's organised the children's programme of Mountains to Sea in the past, met up with Philip and me and took us for a walk up the hill above Dalkey, where there were sweeping views of the coastline (and wild garlic).  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/681306_original-475365645f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe had tea and cake in Dalkey and stopped by the smaller Dalkey branch of the Gutter Bookshop, which we'd been curious to see. (I bought a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier that I'd been meaning to read.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/682321_original-0d295bb5c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Sarah Webb at dinner in the Gourmet Food Parlour, who gave us each a copy of her book on famous Irish women, illustrated by Irish artist \u003Ca href=\"https://www.laurenipsum.ie/\">Lauren O'Neill\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/679679_original-4f69f0dc56.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nWe always like to check in with Children's Book Ireland when we're in town, and we were lucky enough to catch \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elainajryan\">Elaina Ryan\u003C/a> right before she headed off to the Bologna Children's Book Festival (where half of children's publishing is this week). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/681510_original-e7abbc9c2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Sara Keating who invited us and looked after us doing our visit - thanks so much for all your hard work, Sara! And thanks to RTÉ2 presenter \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ZainabBoladale\">ZainabBoladale\u003C/a> and her film crew, for meeting up with us, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CormacKinsella\">Cormac Kinsella\u003C/a> for racing off to get us a Kevin book, Director Liz Kelly, photographer Ger Holland, Brid Boland, Barry Walshe, Betty on social media and everyone who helped introduce us and point us in the right direction! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/682014_original-c5349c13c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd we were very moved that the city of Dun Laoghaire would erect a monument to Kevin. He's not perhaps as roly-poly as we imagine him, but it was a kind gesture all the same. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/682530_original-24a958e55d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2019-04-01T16:55:00.000Z","ireland-mountains-to-sea-2019",[],"ireland: mountains to sea 2019",1776628730116]