My Picture Book Collection
I have a collection of picture books. It didn’t start out as a collection, just books to share with my kids, however, it has grown over the years. It was in 2012 when I started collecting picture books for me rather than the kids. I was writing a princess book …
Reading Challenges – 2021
A few years ago, I started doing the PopSugar Reading Challenge as a way to start reading outside my comfort zone, as well as doing the GoodReads reading challenge. While the PopSugar challenge has fallen by the wayside the last couple of years, I have kept up with the GoodReads …
What I Read – December 2020
Happy New Year! I can hardly believe it’s the first day of 2021. As predicted, my son working in a book shop has been dangerous! Although it was also amazing to be able to give him a list of books for Christmas gifts so he could do shopping for me, …
What I Read – November 2020
November has been and gone, only one month left of 2020. I made some great progress on my To Be Read pile, reading books that I won through Booktober Fest from Imani the Author, books my nephew leant me, and more. My older son got a job in a book …
12 Days of Christmas 2020
Did you know, the 12 Days of Christmas are between December 25 and January 5? I learned this a couple of years ago after spending years thinking it was the first 12 days of December!! For fun, I’ve decided to help us all kickstart our creativity with a 12 Days …
What I’ve Read – October 2020
We are getting settled in our new house and most of my books are unpacked. There is something about having bookshelves bursting with books that makes a house a home. October was a very exciting month as I published an amazing anthology by young Australian authors called Something Funny Happened on …
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About Melissa
Melissa Gijsbers started writing when she was in High School during the 1990s, even winning some awards for a short story and a script. For many years, life got in the way of creative writing, however she did start blogging around 2006.
She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her two sons and a pet blue tongue lizard.
