Skip to content

Pictures and Conversations

meandering thoughts on fiction for young people (mostly)

  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • More From Me!
  • Who is Jane?
  • Podcast

Category: Poetry

Posted on May 11, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fifty

Of all TS Eliot’s Practical Cats, Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat is my favourite. From ‘the whisper down the line…when the Night Mail’s ready to depart’…

Continue reading → My Lockdown Books: Fifty

Posted on May 30, 2017June 27, 2017

Nosy Crow

One of the best things to happen in publishing recently is Nosy Crow.  The independent publisher of children's books and apps launched in January 2011…

Continue reading → Nosy Crow

Posted on May 24, 2017June 27, 2017

Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee

Following on from yesterday's piece about the Carnegie Medal I'd like to draw your attention to a book that won its sister Medal.  The Kate…

Continue reading → Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee

Posted on May 19, 2017June 27, 2017

Cute Cats, Cruel Cats, Crazy Cats

I love cats and over the years I've reviewed lots of books in which they star.  Here are just a few of my favourites. It’s…

Continue reading → Cute Cats, Cruel Cats, Crazy Cats

Twitter Updates

  • Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: What's in a Name? anchor.fm/jane-sandell/e… 5 hours ago
  • Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: A Sense of Community and Place anchor.fm/jane-sandell/e… 5 hours ago
  • Here's my next random selection of books. Flowers this time @LindseyFraser @lindanewbery @adelegeras… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
  • @LindseyFraser Thank you Lindsey. 10 hours ago
  • Listen to "How It All Began" by Pictures and Conversations. ⚓ anchor.fm/jane-sandell/e… 1 day ago
  • Listen to Pictures and Conversations on ⚓ anchor.fm/jane-sandell 1 day ago
  • Listen to "Dorita Fairlie Bruce's Song of the Clyde" by Pictures and Conversations. ⚓ anchor.fm/jane-sandell/e… 1 day ago
  • Something a bit different from @KatieFforde. Alexandra, Meg and Lizzie bond at a cookery class in sixties London.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 days ago
  • A really random selection of wonderful books @LindseyFraser @LMMontgomeryLS @lmmonline_org @LMMontgomerySO… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
  • @LindseyFraser @loveswimming @hilary_mckay @fionanoblebooks @MacmillanKidsUK Me too Lindsey. I seem to have been waiting for it forever. 4 days ago
  • An accessible introduction to activism and environmental campaigning wrapped up in a story about Rosa, a little bir… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
  • Some brightly and boldly illustrated aids to learning from @Simsillustrator and @OxfordChildrens. Just right for t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
  • You can always sell me on a penguin story. Poppy is one of a long line of performing penguins. She wants to fit in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago

Categories

  • Adult Novels
  • Board Books
  • Book Collecting
  • Children's Books
  • Crafts
  • Illustration
  • Language
  • Libraries
  • Non-Fiction
  • Picture Books
  • Poetry
  • Reading
  • Teenage Books
  • Uncategorized
  • Writing

Tags

Advent Calendar 2018 Anna Buchan Australia Austria Barrington Stoke Canada Career Novels Careers Less Taken Carnegie Medal Chalet School Chicken House Books Chris Riddell Clare Mallory David Roberts Dorita Fairlie Bruce Dorothy L Sayers Dumfries Edinburgh Edinburgh International Book Festival Eleanor Updale Elinor Brent-Dyer Elizabeth Laird Elizabeth Wein Elsie Oxenham Eva Ibbotson First World War Floris Books Frank Cottrell Boyce Garth Nix Germany Girls Gone By Great War Greyladies Helen Dore Boylston Helen McClelland Jean Estoril Joan Lingard Jostein Gaarder Judith Kerr Julia Green Kate Greenaway Medal Kenneth Oppel KM Peyton Linda Newbery LM Montgomery Lossiemouth Lossiemouth Library Mabel Esther Allan Macmillan Mal Peet Marie-Louise Jensen Meg Rosoff Michael Gerard Bauer Moray Council Libraries Morris Gleitzman My Lockdown Books Norway Nosy Crow O Douglas Paul Dowswell Peebles Prince Edward Island Publishing School Stories Scotland Sea Second World War Sterling Children's Books Theresa Breslin Travel Travel By the Book Troqueer Primary School Valerie Baxter Vienna Youth Libraries Group
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • More From Me!
  • Who is Jane?
  • Podcast