Skip to content

Pictures and Conversations

meandering thoughts on fiction for young people (mostly)

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

Tag: Edinburgh

Posted on June 16, 2020

To the Festival

I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…

Continue reading → To the Festival

Posted on May 17, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fifty Eight

Who to trust. What to believe. How to survive. These are the questions battering Jack Shian as he continues his quest to find his father.…

Continue reading → My Lockdown Books: Fifty Eight

Posted on May 12, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two

I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…

Continue reading → My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two

Posted on August 4, 2008August 19, 2008

How it all began

I've been reading and collecting children's books ever since I could read.  My parents started me off before I can remember and I've just kept…

Continue reading → How it all began

Twitter Updates

  • @ImogenRW @NosyCrow @saramulvanny Don't get me wrong. I like Great Elizabethans but I thought there might have bee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
  • Well, we've always suspected it but now we know: things are always better with cake. I mean, it's what stopped the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • Maya and her Dad love going for walks in lots of different places. Wherever they go, there are so many things to se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • What fun for small children! Not only are there old, bright and engaging illustrations of things in the natural wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • The shapes are back! The squares and hexagons have built a high solid tower and Circle and his round and pointy fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • A charming book featuring a grandmother sharing her story of coming to Britain on the Windrush with her young grand… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • Our heroes have entered the Magical Pony Club Steeplechase which might be exclusive, but there's some underhand bus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • This great book from @NosyCrow features 25 Britons of the last 70 years, showing how they fit in to the timeline of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • @BarringtonStoke are always to be relied upon for great stories. @peterbunzl and @liavisirin have certainly deliver… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • From @OxfordChildrens comes a series of #VeryShortIntroductions ideal for upper primary school aged children. They'… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • RT @FoggieToddler: Now in stock! The new book from @littledoorbooks and @DaveFlanagan67 👏👏👏 https://t.co/9zqUPxCh96 5 days ago
  • Helen, Caro and Kay. Friends from university now leading very different lives and keeping secrets from themselves… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
  • RT @DanSmithAuthor: Lithuanian copies of My Friend the Enemy flew in yesterday … super exciting cover illustration! https://t.co/hS8Czkb7f1 1 week ago
  • RT @littledoorbooks: Great to see @DaveFlanagan67 and @willustrations1 new #ChapterBook #UnclePeteAndTheForestOfLostThings featuring @scott… 1 week ago
  • RT @littledoorbooks: It is an absolute joy to do our final #CoverReveal of 2022. If you liked #TheGirlWhoStoleTheStars you are going to LOV… 2 weeks ago

Categories

  • Adult Novels
  • Board Books
  • Book Collecting
  • Children's Books
  • Crafts
  • Illustration
  • Language
  • Libraries
  • Non-Fiction
  • Picture Books
  • Poetry
  • Reading
  • Teenage Books
  • 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 Dumfries Edinburgh Edinburgh International Book Festival Eleanor Updale Elinor Brent-Dyer Elizabeth Laird Elizabeth Wein Elsie Oxenham Eva Ibbotson First World War 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 Kate Greenaway Medal Kenneth Oppel KM Peyton Linda Newbery Little Door Books LM Montgomery Lossiemouth Mabel Esther Allan Macmillan Mal Peet Marie-Louise Jensen Meg Rosoff Michael Gerard Bauer Moray Council Libraries Morris Gleitzman My Lockdown Books National Trust Norway Nosy Crow O Douglas Paul Dowswell Pavilion Books Peebles Prince Edward Island Publishing School Stories Scotland Sea Second World War Sterling Children's Books Templar Books Theresa Breslin Travel Travel By the Book Troqueer Primary School Vienna What On Earth Books Youth Libraries Group
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • More From Me!
  • Who is Jane?
  • Podcast
  • Follow Following
    • Pictures and Conversations
      • Join 495 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Pictures and Conversations
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...