by Hannah | Jun 5, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing
Elizabeth Gilbert (superstar author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear) suggests that we don’t call our books “our babies”. It’s not all that helpful or healthy to be so attached to your work output that you assign it the same...
by Hannah | May 24, 2017 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Kids and Parenting
Oh man, life is busy these days. B1 has just started playing netball, which requires two additional early morning wake-ups, and she’s taking an art class every week. B2 is keen on “ripper rugby” and pretty much every other activity that gets...
by Hannah | Oct 26, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Travel, Writing
Well, we said we’d do it and we did. Stubbornness prevailed… Marjory and the Mouse is here! Look at it, would you? I think I am as biased about the beauty and charm of the book (due to Mahe and Luis and Helena – merci and obrigada!) as...
by Hannah | Oct 5, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing
I recently listened to an illustrator describe the tools she had used to produce a picture book – “graphite pencils, watercolour, collage, old photographs…and stubbornness.’ Ah. Yes. Picture books may look simple. In fact, the simpler they look or seem,...
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