{"id":1618,"date":"2019-07-29T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2019-07-29T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:58:39","slug":"that-has-made-me-want-to-be-an-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That has made me want to be an author&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-624x832.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/E1E3C2B7-E6BC-434B-9C4A-FDF93EF1B921-e1564428067829-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I received the best post ever: a <strong>whole book <\/strong>of thank you letters from the fantastic Year 1 class at Henham &amp; Ugley Primary School. I visited the school back in June, and the Year 1 class and I bonded big-time over my dark skies book, <em>Jacob Starke Loves The Dark. <\/em>The children created some wonderful nocturnal pictures, as a starting-point for their own stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1616\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1616\" class=\"wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7904A164-A0A4-49EF-AC78-AC3F1BAAAE54-e1564428151816-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To hear that you have given a child the \u2018best day ever\u2019 or inspired them to become an author, is, to say the least, humbling. Thank you to their lovely teacher, Suzie Espie, for putting the book together &#8211; especially as several of the children say they would like to swap her for me! (I\u2019m sure they don\u2019t mean it, Suzie!) It is a very special thank you, and I will treasure it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1617\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1617\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9833CD47-8BA0-4A29-B059-661AB5C5277A-e1564428200749-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FFEA2467-4477-4FC6-B226-1A2B88AF051E-e1564430185748-1024x904.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FFEA2467-4477-4FC6-B226-1A2B88AF051E-e1564430185748-1024x904.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FFEA2467-4477-4FC6-B226-1A2B88AF051E-e1564430185748-300x265.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FFEA2467-4477-4FC6-B226-1A2B88AF051E-e1564430185748-768x678.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FFEA2467-4477-4FC6-B226-1A2B88AF051E-e1564430185748-624x551.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received the best post ever: a whole book of thank you letters from the fantastic Year 1 class at Henham &amp; Ugley Primary School. 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