{"id":480,"date":"2017-07-05T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:46:16","slug":"the-sibo-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/the-sibo-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sibo Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1499265124798\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-first builder-section-banner builder-section-next-text\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/005.jpg');\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1499265127909\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-prev-banner builder-section-text builder-section-last builder-text-columns-3\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div id=\"builder-section-1499265127909-column-2\" class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>From 2015-2019 &#8220;Sibo&#8221; (aka Ginny Stone) wrote a weekly blog in the <a href=\"https:\/\/africanreporter.co.za\/category\/opinion-edition\/blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African Reporter<\/a>. Those blogs are also posted here. They cover a variety of subjects, how to deal with bullying, family life, reading, making stuff, science, animals, gardening, being brave, staying safe &#8211; you name it, we&#8217;ve probably covered it.<br \/>\nIn May 2019 this blog won a Global Blog Award and as a result of that, the best of Sibo&#8217;s blogs were published into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1078308772\/\">book<\/a> which is available on Amazon.<br \/>\nAfter giving up writing the column in 2019, Ginny took a bit of a break from blog writing but she&#8217;s back now.<\/p>\n<h3>Sibo Series<\/h3>\n<p>There are 14 titles in the Sibo Series, written by <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginaeries.co.za\/2017\/06\/12\/about-the-author\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ginny Stone<\/a> and published by <a href=\"https:\/\/sibo.co.za\/publishers\/\">Lets Look Publishers<\/a>. They are written in rhyme, beautifully illustrated, and cover all sorts of cool topics such as global warming, HIV AIDS, chemistry, nanotechnology, saving strays, space, growing your own veggies, recycling, biodiversity, fighting malaria, road safety, etiquette using public transport and other interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You can order them directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/sibo.co.za\/publishers\/\">Lets Look publishers<\/a> if you are interested or you can also find them on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit Sibo&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibo.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>\u00a0to find out more about these books.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a specific topic that you would like to become a title in the Sibo Series and have funding to sponsor such a book please don&#8217;t hesitate to contacts us. Read more about this <a href=\"https:\/\/sibo.co.za\/2017\/06\/21\/sponsoring-a-sibo-title\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"builder-section-1499265127909-column-3\" class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-3\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-143 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-and-Lizzie-2-930x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-and-Lizzie-2-930x1024.jpg 930w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-and-Lizzie-2-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-and-Lizzie-2.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 85vw, 444px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\">Go to blogs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2015-2019 &#8220;Sibo&#8221; (aka Ginny Stone) wrote a weekly blog in the African Reporter. Those blogs are also posted here. They cover a variety of subjects, how to deal with bullying, family life, reading, making stuff, science, animals, gardening, being brave, staying safe &#8211; you name it, we&#8217;ve probably covered it. 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