Category Archives: Books

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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Sally Kindberg, knots and sailors

Posted on September 28, 2022 by SallyK

I like knots, in fact I once wrote and illustrated a book about them, as well as learning how  to tie them, on a basic sailing course on the North Sea years ago. It was fascinating to talk to former … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg Dinosaur Wrangling in Fitzrovia

Posted on August 15, 2022 by SallyK

  Dinosaurs extinct? Pah, nonsense!  Lots of Dinos emerged in fantastic drawings by visitors of all ages at the wondrous Pollocks Toy Museum Fitzrovia Fete on Saturday. I had some trouble with my ears, confusing cats with dinosaurs but it … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and penguins

Posted on December 14, 2021 by SallyK

Lat weekend I went to the Bloomsbury Jamboree .  How lovely to see people I hadn’t seen for ages, including artist and ceramicist Bex Shaw, who was an Instagram Covid ‘buddy’ last year when we both had the dreaded Covid … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s podcast on how she pitched Tricky Tricks, her first published book

Posted on October 21, 2021 by SallyK

Many years ago I pitched my first children’s book, about my versions of various magic tricks. I was asked to demonstrate one to the publisher.  It went very wrong but happily there was a positive outcome … Tricky Tricks.  Listen … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s pirate workshop at the Pollocks Toy Museum Fitzrovia Fete

Posted on August 16, 2021 by SallyK

Ahoy there! Pirates of all ages joined me on Saturday at the Fitzrovia Fete, organised by the magical Pollocks Toy Museum, to demonstrate that pirates have remarkably inventive drawing skills.   While pirates swashbuckled, crocodiles snapped, musicians played, Punch and … Continue reading →

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