[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-stratford-lit-fest-2017-hampton-lucy-primary-school":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"As Guest Director of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/jinks-and-ohare-funfair-repair-sarah-mcintyre-and-philip-reeve\">Stratford Lit Fest\u003C/a>, I visited two schools twice for the festival's 'My Author' project, and both were brilliant! Yesterday I \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/776040.html\">blogged\u003C/a> about visiting Wolverton Primary School, and today I'm posting photos from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hamptonlucyschool.org.uk/\">Hampton Lucy Primary School\u003C/a>. On my previous visit, I'd introduced them to my most recent book with \u003Ca href=\"http://philip-reeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/jinks-o-hare-funfair-repair/\">Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair\u003C/a>\u003C/i> and they came up with a huge variety of funfair-related projects! Check out the Dodgem cars: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/231260_original-86b9779958.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nNot only do those look fabulous, but they'd make great models for drawing. Well done, Class 3! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/230947_original-55e9c27f54.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/230790_original-071a389a23.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nEveryone knew I love wearing flamboyant hats, and one of the surprises they'd planned for me was that everyone designed and wore their own funfair-inspired hat! Some of them were amazingly intricate. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/231625_original-6d368feb30.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/231803_original-9a2d9523f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/231993_original-f56b0bc2ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/232342_original-c58b2a1062.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/232507_original-b3c2a853a6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/232732_original-5ed24086c4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nSome of the younger children made colourful paintings of fairground rides. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/233151_original-cfac6c9159.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/233253_original-e83b3fbb95.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd lots of the older kids made books! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/233594_original-468b9804db.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI wanted to read them all, but it was all I could do to stop everything for a bit, right before everyone came into the assembly hall, and browse the books as fast as I could. This pop-up one jumped out at me: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/234134_original-2edd275165.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/233915_original-28c310a23d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/234490_original-07ee6702be.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/235569_original-77d2aac3c4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe author of \u003Ci>Chaos Moon \u003C/i>put so much into it, it was fantastic. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/234788_original-ad4e2605da.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/234749_original-97496e8e6d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/235182_original-2d082ea7ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/235300_original-4b1c1c5367.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI loved the books with novelty elements, such as this pocket with 'Foggle glasses'! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/236247_original-30c30faa55.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/235851_original-401a98926f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nOn my first visit, we created and played a board game, and here's a much more lovely and carefully planned version. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/236567_original-26c700d478.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n(Detail)\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/236347_original-06eb236c6d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnother class featured the staff of the Underwater Funfair they had imagined. Meet 'Mr O'fish'ous! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/237898_original-bf0bc2512e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/237109_original-8a7b583585.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere are some drawings of Emily, the orphan in Funfair Moon who really, really wants to be an engineer on Jinks & O'Hare's repair team. (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/jinks-o-hare-funfair-repair/\">Here's a sheet you can download from my website\u003C/a> to learn how to draw Emily, step by step.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/237607_original-0bc706b1b9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a poster advertising the fair. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/237565_original-5afee49143.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd several people created the sort of guides you'd collect at the funfair entrance with the tickets, or possibly at an information booth. They were great! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/238505_original-5b3ef854a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/238239_original-ad89e72670.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/238752_original-39dcac8a59.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/238982_original-1445974fef.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/239420_original-55d695ab76.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/239188_original-6fd23cf6e4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/239667_original-875d72f1f6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to teacher \u003Cb>Lynda Smith\u003C/b> for being our school contact person, and Stratford Lit Fest director \u003Cb>Annie Ashworth\u003C/b> for her inspiring ideas for the schools and for coordinating my visits. And to all the teachers and children who created such amazing work! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/240733_original-2228bb4d79.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n(I just had to show you bits and bobs from the room near the entrance lobby.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/240503_original-0ed92267f9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI stayed with Annie on my first visit but on the second visit, I stayed in this remarkable hotel, right across the street from William Shakespeare's school and birthplace. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/241243_original-905286943e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I got to travel and have dinner with these amazing people who were also doing school visits: writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.abielphinstone.com/\">Abi Elphinstone\u003C/a> and a writer and illustrator whose work I've known and loved since I arrived in Britain, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/author/nick-butterworth/14211\">Nick Butterworth\u003C/a>.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/240246_original-27c8ffada4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nBig thanks to \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jojames100\">Jo James\u003C/a>, who drove us around! Abi and I both knew Jo from the Dubai Lit Fest, where she's the fun highlight of the authors' lounge area and the one who's famous for being able to trouble-shoot any problem or deal with the most difficult of divas. :) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/241081_original-df7095b34a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIf anyone near Stratford would like to come along next Sunday, I'll be doing a \u003Ci>Jinks & O'Hare\u003C/i> event with Philip (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/jinks-and-ohare-funfair-repair-sarah-mcintyre-and-philip-reeve\">tickets here\u003C/a>) and a group event, the Big Draw Challenge, with \u003Cb>Philip\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Martin Brown\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Rob Biddulph\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Jonny Duddle\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/big-draw-challenge-with-sarah-mcintyre-martin-brown-rob-biddulph-and-jonny-duddle\">tickets here\u003C/a>). It should be good fun! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/big-draw-challenge-with-sarah-mcintyre-martin-brown-rob-biddulph-and-jonny-duddle\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/241598_original-43e1a7c07c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nhttp://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/big-draw-challenge-with-sarah-mcintyre-martin-brown-rob-biddulph-and-jonny-duddle","2017-04-24T21:10:00.000Z","stratford-lit-fest-2017-hampton-lucy-primary-school",[],"stratford lit fest 2017: hampton lucy primary school",1776628728971]