These are the ones that are just germs of ideas so far. They haven’t really started to sprout. But I want to add them in, because they might in the future. — Twelve magpies: another one that came from a blog post of mine. There’s the original rhyme about counting magpies – and one day …
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Picture Book Ideas Month: collecting
This is one I ‘read to myself in my head’ on the way to school pick up. Interestingly, it developed from more regular collecting of things to collecting that was a polite way of saying less friendly habits. I decided it needed a slightly more positive ending – and looked for some good habits to …
Picture Book Ideas Month: Wellies
Time to begin. With the rain in various degrees of excitability tonight, this idea seems like a good place to start. Wellies. That’s the idea. A book about wellies. (Wellies, aka wellington boots, gum boots, rubber boots, call them what you will.) Wellies are such a familiar part of childhood. When I was little, wellies …
A new post a day challenge – and wimping out
So. This is what I’ve been avoiding writing about. Now I’ve limbered up a bit, it’s time to tell you about it. I had lots of intentions to spare you all the sometimes over-hectic posting that once a day can bring. I was going to do the sensible thing – plan the posts, store them …
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Interlude 2: is inspiration a found item?
We long for it to be. We believe there is a pearl of great price, whatever other merchants have told us. We hear the story of Harry Potter, walking fully fledged into the imagination of the author, and take our own train journeys, on the look out for a lone character thumbing a lift. We …
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