Recently Renee Price from Create It Kids asked me “How do you pronounce your Surname?”
It’s a Dutch surname that’s pronounced “Gizz-Burz”. The G is soft as in Go.
When my Opa (grandfather) came to Australia, immigration asked what his name was, and they wrote is as Gijsbers. It’s meant to be spelled with a y and an umlaut, however immigration spelled it with an i and j.
My father came to Australia when he was three and doesn’t speak much Dutch, I can’t speak any either.
I learned about this picture book through a kidlit Facebook group and was able to download a free copy on Amazon. The Very Strange Orange is a picture book that is aimed at older readers and kids who ask questions like 'If an orange is blue, is it still an orange?'....
Lilly's Library is a junior fiction story about a little girl who loves books and doesn't want to wait until she grows up to have her own library. The idea for this book came to me one day and I started to write, then it sat for ages until I saw it when I was going...
It's already the end of May, and my mum's birthday. It was nice to end the month with a roast dinner with family followed by birthday cake. Here are the books I read during May: The Hare who Wouldn't Share by Steve Small - a lovely picture book about a hare who...