Sally Poyton

Many people experience excitement and a certain amount of anxiety when they hear that one of their favourite books is coming to the ...

A TIME TO CELEBRATE FAIRY TALES! So last week Richard Dawkins, managed to upset almost everyone I know by doing a talk at the Chelte...

Usually I’d be shouting from the roof tops on Tell A Fairy Tale Day, last year I posted a video blog of me telling a self-penned fairy tale ...

Yesterday whilst walking the dogs in Black Park (Buckinghamshire), we stumbled on an old building, which I thought was odd I hadn't not...

Western Fairy Tales & Manga Part 2;  Fruits Baskets by Natsuki Takaya This is the slightly delayed follow up to Part 1 of Fa...

Here is my contribution to Tell A Fairy Tale Day - 26th February 2013... (if you are of a delicate nature, or a child - you might w...

2012 really was the year of the Fairy Tale. As I detailed in my earlier blog posts ( click here and here ) it was destined to be fa...

 I would love Santa to put in a First Edition copy of the Grimm's Fairy Tales in each stocking, but as that may be a tad tricky and not...

200 Year's old today! On the 20th December 1812 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm First published their, ' Kinder- und Hausmärchen' /  ...

Western Fairy Tales in Manga In the spirit  - Here is me Mangafied! What’s Manga?   Literally translated Manga means, ‘whim...

Celebrating National Dyslexia Awareness Week 2012 How Three Dyslexics Shaped  the  Modern Fairy Tale Here is my second bl...

Surviving My First School Visit The last week of summer term I did a talk to class of year three students’, twenty eight children in...

Once Upon a Time we pondered; Why do we use Fairy Tales in our Work? This is the third install met of our Fairy Tale blogs, inspired b...

Once Upon A Time we Thought, What is our Favourite Fairy Tale? Recently over on the SCWBI (Society of Children’s book Writersand Illus...