{"id":1529,"date":"2019-02-05T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:51:13","slug":"every-picture-tells-a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Every picture tells a (different) story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I had great fun this morning, visiting the super-creative Year 3 children at St Thomas of Canterbury R C Primary School. They have been finding out about the benefits of darkness, so they invited me into their class to share my book\u00a0Jacob Starke Loves The Dark,<\/strong><\/a><\/em> and work with them to develop narrative through illustrations. What a clever bunch they are!<\/p>\n

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We used two lines from the book:<\/p>\n

The Dark then whispered: \u2018Don\u2019t you see:
\nAll living things depend on me?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em>The children were challenged to illustrate the lines but also tell me something the words don\u2019t say. We ended up with some really fantastic illustrations, extending the story in all kinds of unexpected directions! From bunnies and black panthers afraid of the dark, to martians \u00a0holidaying in the moon! The children were full of ideas! The illustrations will make fantastic starting-points from which to write their own stories.<\/p>\n

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The visit was part of an initiative by\u00a0the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) on the Isle of Wight to highlight the importance of Dark Skies. The CPRE gave a copy of\u00a0Jacob Starke Loves The Dark\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>as a Christmas present to every primary school on the Isle of Wight, and I am supporting this initiative by giving\u00a0FREE,\u00a0YES<\/strong>\u00a0FREE,\u00a0<\/strong>author<\/b> visits<\/strong> to Isle of Wight primary schools between now and the end of February 2019. I still have a few slots left! So to claim a visit, please email me at petarainford@gmail.com.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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I had great fun this morning, visiting the super-creative Year 3 children at St Thomas of Canterbury R C Primary School. They have been finding out about the benefits of darkness, so they invited me into their class to share my book\u00a0Jacob Starke Loves The Dark, and work with them to develop narrative through illustrations. […]<\/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\/1529"}],"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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}