[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-making-books-with-steve-cole":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today the writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stevecolebooks.co.uk\">Steve Cole\u003C/a> and I spent all day at Writtle College in Essex making Alice-in-Wonderland themed books with 50 nine- and ten-year olds, as a joint project between the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.roh.org.uk/\">Royal Opera House\u003C/a> and Chelmsford's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Just-Imagine/160858473949007\">Just Imagine\u003C/a> story centre. The idea was that it would accompany their \u003Ci>Alice in Wonderland\u003C/i> opera, but we went a bit wild creating Steve in Wonderland/Sarah in Wonderland/Insert-kid's-name in Wonderland stories. Here's my super-fast drawing of Steve in exploding pants, which somehow managed to fit the theme.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/steve_cole_2-771cbd43fb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the kids' reinterpretation of the Alice character. (I just drew what they told me.) Oh, and Steve stuck sparkly heart stickers all over his t-shirt... stylin'! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/steve_cole_1-e7da18e276.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDoing a workshop with Steve is great; he's full of energy and keeps the kids on the edge of their seats, never knowing what outrageous thing he's going to bellow next. Half the time he had me jumping in surprise, and the other half, standing there open-mouthed wondering if he'd gone completely nuts. Good times. (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/367873.html\">Here's the link to the Monster Mega-Challenge workshop we did a few months ago.\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stevecolebooks.co.uk/steves-space/blog/2011/may/blog05-27-2011/\">Click here to read Steve's blog about the day\u003C/a> and find out \u003Cb>WHY HE HAD EXPLODING PANTS\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\nOther news: Last night, BBC Radio 4's programme \u003Ci>All in the Mind\u003C/i> featured my friend \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/\">Darryl Cunningham\u003C/a>'s graphic novel \u003Ci>Psychiatric Tales\u003C/i> and did a great interview with him. You can listen to it for the next six days on its \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011mt0z\">BBC Listen Again page\u003C/a>. (Darryl's slot starts at the 7:35 mark.)","2011-05-25T19:10:00.000Z","making-books-with-steve-cole",[],"making books with steve cole",1776628720241]