{"id":1115,"date":"2017-10-17T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2017-10-17T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:03:15","slug":"isle-of-wight-literary-festival-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Wight Literary Festival a great success!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wow. That was a busy week. It felt like, every minute, I worked, ate, slept and breathed the Isle of \u00a0Wight Literary Festival. But it was great fun too.<\/p>\n

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The Inspire Yurt, all ready for my session<\/p><\/div>\n

I particularly enjoyed the four school visits I did on Thursday and Friday (l always enjoy school visits.<\/a>) I calculated that, over the four visits, I did 13 presentation, so by the end, it was all a bit of a blur!<\/p>\n

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Creating rhymes with the children at Northwood<\/p><\/div>\n

But I do distinctly recall that I visited Northwood Primary School (top quality Joke telling from the year 3 class) and Summerfields Primary School (gruelling Q&As!) on Thursday and Broadlea Primary School and Gatten and Lake Primary Schools on Friday.<\/p>\n

Great fun sharing my stories with the children, creating some rhymes and letter pictures and fielding some tricky question. My favourite question? Gotta be from the year 2 class at Gatten and Lake: ‘you’re really tall: how did you get through the door?’ Flummoxed.<\/p>\n

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Big thumbs-up from Broadlea!<\/p><\/div>\n

And then, after the authors’ reception at the Royal Yacht Squadron (doncha know?) on Friday evening, it was on to the main event on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

Had great fun sharing my books,\u00a0Isabella, Rotten Speller\u00a0<\/em><\/a>and\u00a0Isabella’s Adventures in Numberland\u00a0<\/a><\/em>and\u00a0helping the children make letter portraits and letter puppets.<\/p>\n

Also really enjoyed selling books and meeting lots of book lovers in the Isle of Wight children’s authors’ pop-up book shop. Great to spend some quality time with some lovely local authors. Can’t wait til next year!<\/p>\n

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The letter portraits were a hit!<\/p><\/div>\n

Though first, I have the small matter of a book launch<\/a> to get on with!<\/p>\n

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Creating a letter person at Broadlea<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lots of interaction from the years 2, 3 and 4 at Summerfields<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. That was a busy week. It felt like, every minute, I worked, ate, slept and breathed the Isle of \u00a0Wight Literary Festival. But it was great fun too. I particularly enjoyed the four school visits I did on Thursday and Friday (l always enjoy school visits.) I calculated that, over the four visits, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}