Lisa Allen Illustrator | Artist

The sisterhood of the travelling pants . . .

December 24, 2019

Lisa Allen

It's been a long while since I've written anything here - an interval which...

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Searching for Angelo . . .

November 8, 2016

Lisa Allen

Saturday last, the 29th of October, marked the 162nd anniversary of the deat...

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Everyone's a critic . . .

September 20, 2016

Lisa Allen

Laying in the dark tonight at bedtime, listening to the rain, when this conv...

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A bag of ribbons . . .

August 2, 2016

Lisa Allen

A busy few months of working on a picture book has meant I haven't posted an...

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The legacy of George Pye Crombie

April 18, 2016

Lisa Allen

Anzac Day, 2016, is fast approaching. A time to look back with gratitude a...

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Mary Stanley . . .

March 30, 2016

Lisa Allen

I'm reading lots of poetry again. This by Mary Stanley (1919 - 1980)

a...

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Twinky by Betty Larom . . .

March 21, 2016

Lisa Allen

Been thinking a bit about the books I loved as a child. I still have quite...

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Seriously funny . . .

March 16, 2016

Lisa Allen

This woman is an absolute star and I will be following her from now on....

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The fire in Freswick Street . . .

March 15, 2016

Lisa Allen

I'm really fascinated by history and in the last few years particularly that...

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Elephants on roller-skates . . .

March 12, 2016

Lisa Allen

This week is the closest I've ever been to throwing in the proverbial towel...

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The sisterhood of the travelling pants . . .

December 24, 2019

Searching for Angelo . . .

November 8, 2016

Everyone's a critic . . .

September 20, 2016

A bag of ribbons . . .

August 2, 2016

The legacy of George Pye Crombie

April 18, 2016

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Favourite Blogs . . .

Vintage Kids Books My Kids Love

Beatties Book Blog

Fifi Colston Creative

Feathers of the Firebird

Bad Hostess

Let me be Frank

Discombobulated

Poets . . .

Allen Curnow

Mary Stanley

Kendrick Smithyman

A R D Fairburn

Hone Tuwhare

Writers . . .

Robin Hyde 1906 - 1939

Frank Sargeson 1903 - 1982

Katherine Mansfield 1888 - 1923

Eudora Welty 1909 - 2001

Flannery O'Connor 1925 - 1964

H H Munro 1870 - 1916

F Scott Fitzgerald 1986 - 1940

. . . just for starters.

Children's Authors & Illustrators . . .

Raymond Briggs

Jane Ray

The Provensens

The Ahlbergs

Mabel Lucie Attwell 1879 - 1964

Joyce Lankester Brisley 1896 - 1978

Ezra Jack Keats 1916 - 1983

. . . and lots, lots more.

Artists . . .

Ted Dutch 1928 - 2008

Andrew Wyeth 1917 - 2009

Rhona Haszard 1901-1931

Rita Angus 1908 - 1970

Patricia France 1911 - 1995

Frances Hodgkins 1869 - 1947

. . . and many more.