{"id":1356,"date":"2018-10-23T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:24:45","slug":"so-much-fun-in-the-youth-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"So much fun in the Youth Zone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44414616_2154590454761910_2597750744954175488_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1348\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44414616_2154590454761910_2597750744954175488_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44414616_2154590454761910_2597750744954175488_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44414616_2154590454761910_2597750744954175488_n-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44414616_2154590454761910_2597750744954175488_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that was fun. Exhausting. But definitely a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I am just trying to get back to some kind of normal after a whirlwind couple of weeks with the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. After last week&#8217;s Schools Programme, this weekend was the<strong> Main Event: the Youth Zone,<\/strong> a children&#8217;s festival, with talks and workshops from a wide range of authors and illustrators; as well as spoken word performances, storytelling,\u00a0 junk modelling, science, rockets, exhibitions, competitions and a whole lot more. It was fab!<\/p>\n<p>So pleased with the feedback from my two sessions. Great that my new book about fear of the dark and the importance of Dark Skies,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?page_id=1315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> <em>Jacob Starke Loves the Dark<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, was so well received (phew!) and I was delighted by the woolly solar systems the children made in the workshop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44342887_2154590524761903_3180997386671489024_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1347\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44342887_2154590524761903_3180997386671489024_n-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44342887_2154590524761903_3180997386671489024_n-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44342887_2154590524761903_3180997386671489024_n-300x545.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44342887_2154590524761903_3180997386671489024_n.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44566109_2154590584761897_8432766491505459200_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1346\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44566109_2154590584761897_8432766491505459200_n-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44566109_2154590584761897_8432766491505459200_n-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44566109_2154590584761897_8432766491505459200_n-300x545.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44566109_2154590584761897_8432766491505459200_n.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; not to mention the super superheroes that emerged from my session based on\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?page_id=956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Niggle<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>the following day<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">. The book, if you don&#8217;t already know, is about resilience, and the children were encouraged to find the superheroes inside themselves. I think they succeeded!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44533007_2154858728068416_3579028262443024384_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1345 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44533007_2154858728068416_3579028262443024384_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44506637_2154858758068413_1795840025343033344_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1351\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44506637_2154858758068413_1795840025343033344_n-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44506637_2154858758068413_1795840025343033344_n-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44506637_2154858758068413_1795840025343033344_n-300x545.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44506637_2154858758068413_1795840025343033344_n.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44535796_2154858808068408_297406109923147776_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1354\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44535796_2154858808068408_297406109923147776_n-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44535796_2154858808068408_297406109923147776_n-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44535796_2154858808068408_297406109923147776_n-300x545.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44535796_2154858808068408_297406109923147776_n.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was fun. Exhausting. But definitely a whole lot of fun. I am just trying to get back to some kind of normal after a whirlwind couple of weeks with the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. After last week&#8217;s Schools Programme, this weekend was the Main Event: the Youth Zone, a children&#8217;s festival, with [&hellip;]<\/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\/1356"}],"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=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}