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Sally Kindberg’s workshops at London Zoo
If you can’t wear a pair of special ears while you’re working at London Zoo then when can you? Last week I was invited to run two visual narrative aka comic strip STORY workshops with Zoo staff, as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged comic strips, Hat of Surprise, London Zoo, storytelling, visual narratives, workshops
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Sally Kindberg and sloths
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
Posted in Books, Drawings, Visits
Tagged children's non-fiction books, London Zoo, sloth
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Sally Kindberg and urban wildlife
Elegant giraffe ladies can be seen posing in a tattooist’s window in Camden Town – it doesn’t seem polite to enquire if they are the tattooists themselves. If you happen to be walking through London’s Regents Park nearby, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Walking, Writing
Tagged bactrians, Camden Town, giraffes, London wildlife, London Zoo, Regents Park, tattooist, urban wildlife
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Sally Kindberg, a vicar and some penguins
Early last sunday the adventurous and kindly vicar of St Mark’s church, Primrose Hill conducted a short matins service by the penguin pool at London zoo. Luckily he has a strong speaking voice as several macaws tried to join in. … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and penguins
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
Delightful small relatives, a sloth called Marilyn, and my Draw It! London book
Lovely young relatives came to visit me en route to London Zoo, carrying copies of my Draw It! London book, which amongst many other things has a drawing of my favourite sloth Marilyn who lives in the zoo. Very exciting … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Bloomsbury Childrens Books, Draw It! London, London Zoo, sloth, sloth baby
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My children’s book about London
Great to see copies of my Draw It! London book (published by Bloomsbury Childrens Books) at the Museum of London shop today! I so enjoyed (over) researching this book … waiting for low tide so I could see where the Fleet flows … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Big Ben, Bloomsbury Childrens Books, books about London for children, Draw It! London, gladiators, London River Police, London Zoo, Museum of London, Ravenmaster, ravens, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Tower of London, Tower of London Ravens, Vice Lord Lieutenant of London
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High Speed Rail hearing at the House of Lords Select Committee
The morning started with hedgehogs. HS2 (High Speed Rail 2) want to use London Zoo‘s carpark as a lorry depot. Hedgehogs live on the leafy edges of the carpark. Could this endangered species survive the estimated two hundred (the number … Continue reading
Draw It! London due out in May 2014
Still going through the first set of proofs for Draw It! London … My original idea was for a book about one hundred wonders in London. My publishers (Bloomsbury) suggested it should be part of my Draw It! series, … Continue reading