Sandie Mourão is a researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, with over 30 years’ experience as a teacher, teacher educator, materials developer, researcher and reader of stories. Her work revolves around early language learning, but she is passionate about children’s literature and has researched how language learners respond to picturebooks, as well as the potential picturebooks have for taking learners, of all ages, beyond their classroom walls and into the real world as active citizens. Picturebook-related projects Sandie is involved in include: A blog – www.picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com PEPELT – www.pepelt21.com and ICEPELL – www.icepell.eu She has published widely in the field of ELT and children’s literature and is the author, with Gail Ellis, of the award-winning Teaching English to Pre-primary Children (Delta Publishing, 2020).