[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-world-book-day-roundup-2022":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"It's the World Book Day roundup! After two years of virtual events and last-minute cancellations, it was great to be able to have a real, live, in-person Book Day again! I always absolutely adore seeing people dressing up as characters in our books, and this year there were some crackers! Check out this brilliant \u003Cb>Poglite\u003C/b> costume tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PrettyCrochet/status/1499449985787645958\">Jessica Felton (@PrettyCrochet)\u003C/a>, the spoon-loving aliens from our Reeve & McIntyre book \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.co.uk/cakes-in-space/\">Cakes in Space\u003C/a>\u003C/i>! The chimeypot neckwrap is excellent, and note the fine utility belt. :D \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1150138_original-9d9fbb011f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd check out the ingenuity of this Rambling Island - \u003Cb>Cliff\u003C/b> - from Oliver and the Seawigs, tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RachelEast18/status/1499439223878922244?s=20&t=4bl0HYas1INwozocF7a5eA\">Rachel East (@RachelEast13)\u003C/a>. Love all the Seawig details!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1149701_original-5329d8ddb0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\nAnd some Grumpycorns! (The second photo of Lily was sent into \u003Ca href=\"https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/education/in-pictures-readers-get-creative-for-world-book-day-2022-3595088\">the Worksop Guardian\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1150315_original-8984d33b70.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's not only exciting because of the dressing-up aspect, it's wonderful to see children engaging with books they love and imagining themselves as characters in them. Here's one of the \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, and Beyoncé, one of the guinea pig rascal duo in our Kevin books. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1150712_original-091de37a5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nSome schools encouraged children to dress up spuds instead of themselves: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1150961_original-b048d7fdf5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nFor my World Book Day school visit, I went to Channing Junior School in Highgate, in London. I took the gig a couple years ago, deep in Covid Lockdown, when the only cafe open was the open-air place in our local park. I ran into a librarian, \u003Cb>Caroline Jupp\u003C/b>, whom I knew way back from the days I ran an art gallery in Camberwell with some friends; she asked me if I'd visit her school for World Book Day. Lockdowns seemed to go on forever, and finally when it came time for my World Book Day visit, London wasn't local anymore! I'd moved to Devon. But my fabulous author friend \u003Cb>Candy Gourlay\u003C/b> put me up, and even gave me a lift to school on the day of the Tube strike, so huge thanks to Candy! Do \u003Ca href=\"https://www.candygourlay.com/\">check out Candy's books\u003C/a>, they're ace. \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.candygourlay.com\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1155103_original-e10923083f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nChanning Librarian \u003Cb>Caroline Jupp\u003C/b> had made a great Hungry Caterpillar costume! And here's a picture of us in action, by one of the teachers. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1151647_original-3c898017ff.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIt was great to get some parent feedback afterward! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1151788_original-ad9e45ce16.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the costumes were terrific. Look, here's a teacher as a Biscuit Bandit, from our \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.co.uk/kevin-and-the-biscuit-bandit/\">Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit\u003C/a>\u003C/i>!! And a great wall display in her classroom, too! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1149536_original-01642635b3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Caroline with the Head, Mrs Hughes, dressed as a Flamingo, and some more ace teacher costumes: Elmer the Elephant from the David McKee books, the Scarecrow from \u003Ci>The Wizard of Oz\u003C/i>, and Paddington Bear. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1149384_original-4ca3c30cf5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nEach classroom had a book-themed wall display:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1151157_original-e039cf43bf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nSome of the Illustration Club's artists had made World Book Day posters - here's a Grumpycorn poster: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1151348_original-e66ef1a971.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks so much for inviting me to Channing, Caroline, and to everyone who drew pictures with me! \\r\n\\r\nBesides an in-person visit, my co-author \u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I also did a (pre-recorded) video virtual visit to something like 85 schools in the greater Liverpool area. They were taking part in Liverpool's 2022 \u003Ca href=\"https://readforgood.org/liverpool-two-million-minutes/\">Two Million Minute Challenge (which goes on until 31 March - find out more here on the Read For Good website!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1155669_original-a4364dbddf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\nIt was terrific seeing feedback roll in from schools all over Liverpool! Here's a sampling: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1155533_original-a2c8639087.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1152704_original-7d57f6b093.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1152231_original-7c43f29fb8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1152990_original-97212fba0f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1154727_original-c0a7379fb4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks so much to the Read for Good team and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ReadingatLLP\">Liverpool Learning Partnership \u003C/a>for coordinating this amazing feat of reading! I'm Patron of \u003Ca href=\"https://readforgood.org/\">Read For Good and it's a wonderful charity, running city-wide Readathons and raising money to get books and storytellers to children in hospital\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nAnd to finish, a few more glimpses into what was going on at various schools! Thanks so much to everyone who engaged with our books! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1153449_original-c5d4abbd21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1154868_original-1fc748be45.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1154065_original-0b1d5a9fa0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1154320_original-6e4f2e1c64.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1154036_original-1e428a15c7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1153724_original-5fcc243efb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2022-03-07T19:00:00.000Z","world-book-day-roundup-2022",[],"World Book Day Roundup 2022",1776628731403]