[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-reeve-mcintyre-newland-house-school":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"At the heart of almost all our school visits are thoughtful, pro-active librarians, and at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.newlandhouse.net/\">Newland House School\u003C/a> in Twickenham, I got to meet theirs, the excellent \u003Ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/carolineoDonnabhain/\">Caroline O'Donnabhain\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/377325_original-0edc3aa813.jpg\" width=\"550\">\\r\n\\r\nMy co-author \u003Ca href=\"http://philip-reeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> had met Caroline seven years ago, on a previous visit, and the drawings he'd made then were still proudly displayed on the library wall! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/378223_original-bd294f42ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nWe got to talk with the kids there about how we work: Philip and I brainstorm ideas together, very often with Philip asking me, 'What would you like to draw?'. Then Philip writes the story (but often discusses it with me while he's writing) and then I draw the pictures (but he'll often help me with the pencil roughs if I'm behind, since it takes a lot longer for me to draw than for him to write). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/377820_original-994bada9c6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nTalking about our book \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, we showed them how to draw a pug: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/378061_original-aa1cea4f2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd as ever, it was great fun seeing their results! Thanks to \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/newlandhouse\">@newlandhouse\u003C/a> for tweeting these photos! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/377463_original-d89ebfb4ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI didn't get any photos of my event featuring \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-new-neighbours/\">The New Neighbours\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, but we had fun designing our own animal tower blocks and talking about how drawing diagrams and building models can help give us ideas for stories. Thanks so much to Caroline and everyone at the school who made our visit go so well! \\r\n\\r\nBig thanks to the booksellers at \u003Cb>The Alligator's Mouth\u003C/b> for stocking books! We did an event the day before at their gorgeous bookshop (\u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/799193.html\">which you can read about here\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/799193.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/381264_original-e691fe7a04.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of pugs of the frozen north, just a little aside about one of our favourite pugs, Pickle Pug, who \u003Ca href=\"http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/10/18-sassy-dogs-crufts-definitely-fabulous-7376908/\">featured in Metro's photo round-up of Crufts\u003C/a>. SO PROUD. :D \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/10/18-sassy-dogs-crufts-definitely-fabulous-7376908/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/377060_original-4b6ef9de01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>","2018-03-10T22:37:00.000Z","reeve-mcintyre-newland-house-school",[],"reeve & mcintyre: newland house school",1776628729479]