More Conference Round Up #scbwicon15 07:00 Sarah Dukes & Jonny Duddle With the annual conference buzz still strong, we hear from conference newbie Sarah Dukes, along with deb... 2 Comments Read
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 06:55 November sees the stars align for creative nonfiction picture book writers in the UK. It's Tara Lazar's ever inspiring PiBo... 10 Comments Read
Results - Slush Pile Challenge October 2015 05:00 Amber Caravéo from Skylark Literary set us a wonderful challenge for October 2015. 19 Comments Read
Small Big Celebrations: Jane Howard and Lorraine Cooke 00:00By Charlotte Comley In today's Small Big Celebrations we have a 'well done' shout out to Jane Howard. Jane has been given her ... 6 Comments Read
Featured Illustrator: Trish Phillips 07:00 This month Featured Illustrator celebrates paper engineering virtuoso Trish Phillips . A member of SCBWI for many years, Trish has built a... 2 Comments Read
Network News: SCBWI-BI-CON 2015 07:30 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... 1 Comments Read
Conference Round Up - #scbwicon15 Meet the Newbies! 05:30 Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre Keynotes #scbwicon15 How was it for you? Meet three intrepid reporters as they give us the low... 7 Comments Read
#scbwicon15 - Friendship and Support. 05:30 Susan Brownrigg @suebmuseum The Margaret Carey Scholarship for Fiction winner, Susan Brownrigg, tells us about her conference experien... 16 Comments Read
Conference Blog Break 02:30 Logo by Melany Pietersen OK, I admit it - by midday yesterday, I was beginning to doubt myself. Would anyone remember my Conference B... 5 Comments Read
A Visit to Paddington Children's Library 07:30 Paddington Children’s Library sits almost across from the Royal Oak tube station in central London, hidden away down a ramp from the st... 2 Comments Read
Proofreading Tips - False Friends 05:30 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... 2 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break & Conference Blog Challenge 02:30 Logo by Melany Pietersen It's that time of year again, when you're trying to concentrate on the things you should be doing, ... 2 Comments Read
They come in threes 00:00 Image via Pratham Books That vitally important triumvirate of Parents, Teachers and Librarians (which often intersect) are our theme of... 2 Comments Read
Two new members of the team! 07:00 I'd like to introduce two new members to the Words & Pictures Team. Please give a very warm welcome to our new Slushpile Challen... 11 Comments Read
Three for the Price of One! 07:00 Today we celebrate the power of three as picture book authors Rebecca Colby, Karen Owen and Clare Welsh celebrate their book birthdays. ... 2 Comments Read
A Visit With the Kraken 07:00 ©Viviane Schwarz, 2015 Viviane Schwarz is a CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal shortlisted writer/illustrator . She also designs games and inte... 4 Comments Read
Network News: Meet Your Network - Winchester 2015 07:30 If you are lucky enough to be attending the Winchester conference next weekend, then please come along and say hello to your networks team... 1 Comments Read
Masterclass with Beverley Birch - Event Report 05:30 @bevbirchauthor We sit in the function room of a central London pub. Downstairs a buzzy crowd is watching the rugby world cup, Wales ... 1 Comments Read
Writers' Minds - Anthony McGowan 05:30 Illustration - Whizzy Barr Ever wondered what makes a writer tick? What cogs of creativity whirr to bring stories to life? We take a pe... 7 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 10th November 02:30 Logo by Melany Pietersen I try to live my life in a circumspect fashion, carefully evaluating what I say and do to avoid unnecessary ... 1 Comments Read
Ask a Picture Book Editor 04:00 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... 5 Comments Read
Let us remember 10:32 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... 2 Comments Read
A Nomination for the Carnegie Award 00:00 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... 0 Comments Read
The Hook Finalists! 02:04#scbwicon15 The Hook is a Dragon's Den style pitching event where five SCBWI British Isles Conference delegates each have ten minut... 5 Comments Read
The Debut Author Series: Abbie Rushton 05:30 @Abbietheauthor The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors by Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fr... 4 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 3rd November 02:30 Logo by Melany Pietersen November has either rustled in like leaves on the wind or thumped in like a post-Halloween hangover (please ... 0 Comments Read
Three Independent Booksellers and How They Buy 06:30 November's Words and Pictures focus is on the adults in publishing–those who choose, edit, buy, and sell our books for young readers.... 6 Comments Read
The child within us 07:00 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... 1 Comments Read