{"id":104,"date":"2019-10-28T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/?p=104"},"modified":"2023-01-16T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:30:39","slug":"epic-author-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/2019\/10\/28\/epic-author-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Epic&#8221; Author Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 23rd, we welcomed three of the four authors of the <em>Almost Epic Squad<\/em>&nbsp;series to the library.&nbsp; Kevin Sylvester, Ted Staunton, and Richard Scrimger visited with our Grade 2\/3 to Grade 6\/7 classes to discuss their 4-book series about kid superheroes who develop, at first glance, quirky superpowers that aren&#8217;t very super at all!&nbsp; Their presentation was wonderfully engaging, funny, and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>They also talked about how they write as a group to develop their stories and gave students tips about their writing process.&nbsp; Number one rule?&nbsp; Don&#8217;t use an eraser!&nbsp; Keep, change, leave out, and develop those ideas, but don&#8217;t erase them.&nbsp; Our students are eager to start reading this series!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-106\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-863x647.jpeg 863w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069-144x108.jpeg 144w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8069.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-863x647.jpeg 863w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076-144x108.jpeg 144w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_8076.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 23rd, we welcomed three of the four authors of the Almost Epic Squad&nbsp;series to the library.&nbsp; Kevin Sylvester, Ted Staunton, and Richard Scrimger visited with our Grade 2\/3 to Grade 6\/7 classes to discuss their 4-book series <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/2019\/10\/28\/epic-author-visit\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/stoney-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}