Category Archives: Books

Teeth

Posted on June 10, 2025 by SallyK

Recently I visited Apsley House, once home of the Duke of Wellington, for the first time.  Nothing to do with his teeth (featured above), but because I’m reading Laura Cumming’s excellent book The Vanishing Man about a lost painting by … Continue reading →

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Tricky Tricks

Posted on February 20, 2025 by SallyK

Yesterday experienced a bit of nostalgia … for when the world wasn’t quite so bonkers, and when you could actually go and visit a publisher with an idea and some pictures after talking to them on the phone. The publisher … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg meets Mr Doodle (briefly)

Posted on October 7, 2024 by SallyK

Meeting  and chatting with Mr Doodle today on Primrose Hill bridge, where he was doodling away – part of London Mural Festival – reminded me of one of my Draw It! series, the Doodle a Day book.  

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Sally Kindberg and pirates

Posted on September 25, 2024 by SallyK

One of my Draw It! series of six books was this one about pirates, and I loved working on it, as I rather fancied myself as a pirate.  I only got as far as firstly, rowing a little boat on … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and sloths

Posted on November 21, 2023 by SallyK

It’s funny how the same images and interests pop up again and again in my work over the years! This rather battered copy of ‘Fascinating Facts’ was one of four published by Grafton Books (part of Collins) when my daughter … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg at the Fitzrovia Fete 2023

Posted on August 18, 2023 by SallyK

With thanks to all the Fitzrovia Fete visitors, who with my encouragement, pulled faces and/or drew them. This included newsreader and local resident Paddy O’Connell (who opened the Fete), and poet Jimmy Andrex amongst others.  There were musicians, more poets, … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and quails in space (again)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by SallyK

Thinking about quails again at the moment (as you do), and currently drawing a new story, a distraction I admit from a slowly ongoing and more complicated project. The comic strip above was part of an earlier iteration. Animal pioneers … Continue reading →

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When Sally Kindberg and her robots went south

Posted on March 20, 2023 by SallyK

Last week I visited the Bargehouse on the river Thames’s south bank, site of a remarkable exhibition twenty-five years ago, held at the Museum Of, and organised by curator Clare Patey. During the exhibition, a film crew from Welsh TV … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and skipping

Posted on January 16, 2023 by SallyK

Skipping can be fun!  As three of my siblings have now died from various forms of cancer I’ve decided to skip one hundred times a day during February to try and raise funds for Cancer Research UK.  If you think … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s Draw It! London and a child’s drawing

Posted on November 2, 2022 by SallyK

I do enjoy seeing how readers respond to my Draw It! books!  This sent from a young reader in New Zealand, a page from my Draw It! London book.  The young artist has obviously aimed high, hooray!

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