More Conference Round Up #scbwicon15
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Sarah Dukes & Jonny Duddle With the annual conference buzz still strong, we hear from conference newbie Sarah Dukes, along with deb...
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Learning from other authors and books isn’t cheating: using mentor texts when writing or illustrating creative non-fiction picture books by Juliet Clare Bell
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November sees the stars align for creative nonfiction picture book writers in the UK. It's Tara Lazar's ever inspiring PiBo...
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Results - Slush Pile Challenge October 2015
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Amber Caravéo from Skylark Literary set us a wonderful challenge for October 2015.
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Small Big Celebrations: Jane Howard and Lorraine Cooke
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By Charlotte Comley In today's Small Big Celebrations we have a 'well done' shout out to Jane Howard. Jane has been given her ...
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Featured Illustrator: Trish Phillips
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This month Featured Illustrator celebrates paper engineering virtuoso Trish Phillips . A member of SCBWI for many years, Trish has built a...
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Network News: SCBWI-BI-CON 2015
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What a hoot and a buzz. The coffee’s here and so are the buns. We’ve a glorious view of Hampshire on a cold and frosty morning. Well it i...
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Conference Round Up - #scbwicon15 Meet the Newbies!
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Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre Keynotes #scbwicon15 How was it for you? Meet three intrepid reporters as they give us the low...
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#scbwicon15 - Friendship and Support.
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Susan Brownrigg @suebmuseum The Margaret Carey Scholarship for Fiction winner, Susan Brownrigg, tells us about her conference experien...
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Conference Blog Break
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Logo by Melany Pietersen OK, I admit it - by midday yesterday, I was beginning to doubt myself. Would anyone remember my Conference B...
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A Visit to Paddington Children's Library
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Paddington Children’s Library sits almost across from the Royal Oak tube station in central London, hidden away down a ramp from the st...
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Proofreading Tips - False Friends
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False Friends 3 Here’s another batch of homophones, heterographs and easy-to-mix-up-pairs-of-words. Having used up all the obvious w...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break & Conference Blog Challenge
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Logo by Melany Pietersen It's that time of year again, when you're trying to concentrate on the things you should be doing, ...
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They come in threes
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Image via Pratham Books That vitally important triumvirate of Parents, Teachers and Librarians (which often intersect) are our theme of...
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Two new members of the team!
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I'd like to introduce two new members to the Words & Pictures Team. Please give a very warm welcome to our new Slushpile Challen...
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Three for the Price of One!
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Today we celebrate the power of three as picture book authors Rebecca Colby, Karen Owen and Clare Welsh celebrate their book birthdays. ...
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A Visit With the Kraken
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©Viviane Schwarz, 2015 Viviane Schwarz is a CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal shortlisted writer/illustrator . She also designs games and inte...
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Network News: Meet Your Network - Winchester 2015
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If you are lucky enough to be attending the Winchester conference next weekend, then please come along and say hello to your networks team...
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Masterclass with Beverley Birch - Event Report
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@bevbirchauthor We sit in the function room of a central London pub. Downstairs a buzzy crowd is watching the rugby world cup, Wales ...
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Writers' Minds - Anthony McGowan
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Illustration - Whizzy Barr Ever wondered what makes a writer tick? What cogs of creativity whirr to bring stories to life? We take a pe...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 10th November
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Logo by Melany Pietersen I try to live my life in a circumspect fashion, carefully evaluating what I say and do to avoid unnecessary ...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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How many pages in a picture book? In June one of our blog readers, Anna, asked us how many pages in a board book were best and ho...
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Let us remember
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Whether you believe it to be futile or just, war is a dreadful reality. For those of us fortunate enough to have never experienced war fir...
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A Nomination for the Carnegie Award
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By Charlotte Comley I love being the Celebrations Editor for Words and Pictures; it is so nice sharing in your success, and nothing is mo...
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The Hook Finalists!
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#scbwicon15 The Hook is a Dragon's Den style pitching event where five SCBWI British Isles Conference delegates each have ten minut...
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The Debut Author Series: Abbie Rushton
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@Abbietheauthor The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors by Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fr...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 3rd November
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Logo by Melany Pietersen November has either rustled in like leaves on the wind or thumped in like a post-Halloween hangover (please ...
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Three Independent Booksellers and How They Buy
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November's Words and Pictures focus is on the adults in publishing–those who choose, edit, buy, and sell our books for young readers....
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The child within us
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When adults view children as some kind of alien race, as if they themselves were delivered to the world as pre-formed grown-ups, never hav...
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