Monday 30 January 2017


Here is wishing you a wonderful New Year, full of energy, new inspiration and happiness! 2017 is the Chinese Year of the Fire Rooster and their new year started on 28 January.

According to legend, the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to wish him goodbye before he departed the Earth, but only twelve animals came to bid him farewell. He rewarded them by naming a year after each one in the order that it arrived. Hence the first year belonged to the Rat, then came the Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar. This formed the basis of the twelve animal signs of the Chinese Zodiac. The animal ruling the year in which a person was born has a major, profound influence on his or her life.

About this year, 2017, the year of the Fire Rooster, the Chinese say that people will be more polite and less stubborn, but at the same time they will also have a tendency to complicate things. It will also be a year governed by orientation towards progress, honor and maximum integrity.


Happy, happy New Year!


Sunday 29 January 2017

I have been so busy working on books locally and internationally that I have rather neglected this blog for a while. At last I have now managed to update my bibliography with information about books that I have illustrated and which were published during 2015 and 2016. Do go and have a look at http://marjorie-books.blogspot.co.za/  - I have also updated my CV and you can see that at http://marjorie-cv.blogspot.co.za/

* Now I'd like to share with you some of the illustrations from these latest published children's books:


The Willy Nilly and Thumper series: 

The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper
Book Four – Charlie, the Cross-Eyed Crocodile  [Willy Nilly Stories LLC; USA (published  2017)]
 

 
The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper
Book Three – Stella Star   [Willy Nilly Stories LLC; USA (published December 2016)]







The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper
Book Two Hermit’s Last Hairs   [Willy Nilly Stories LLC; USA (published May 2016)]






The Adventures of Willy Nilly and Thumper
Book One The Lost Treasure of Mount Methuselah   [Willy Nilly Stories LLC; USA (published May 2016)]







The Storiemuis (Afrikaans for "Story Mouse") series:

Storiemuis  (Book 5 and Book 6)  [Human and Rousseau - South Africa (published 2016)]






Storiemuis  (Book 3 and Book 4)  [Human and Rousseau - South Africa (published 2016)]









Storiemuis  (Book 1 and Book 2)  [Human and Rousseau - South Africa (published 2015)]







SeaStories (English) and Stories van die See (Afrikaans) [Protea Books - South Africa (published 2016)