This short fantasy piece is part of Childhood and Memory, a sequence of works written for the Robert Schumann anniversary in July 2006.

Every Picture Tells a Story is a conflation of Nigel Morgan's song cycle The Man with the Golden Key. It brings together a sequence of scenes that take their inspiration from a personal collection of photos, paintings, children’s drawings, and imagined images inspired initially by a chapter from G.K. Chesterton’s Autobiography.

The work is also an extension of a piece of the same name specially written for Jane Chapman for amplified harpsichord and digital visual media. This visual component may be used with this duo version. It comprises a series of twelve visual scenes devised as Flash media by Phil Legard.