{"id":1007,"date":"2020-03-20T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:35:17","slug":"wizard-of-wigwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/wizard-of-wigwash\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizard of Wigwash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ginny has written a new book that has nothing to do with Sibo! It’s called “Wizard of Wigwash <\/a>– The adventures of Johnny the Penguin”. But she has not written it by herself – she has written it in conjunction with Alastair Kendall, hence the name Kendall Stone on the cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are probably wondering how something like this happens, right? Well, Alastair lives in England and his Dad used to tell him a version of this story. He always wanted to write it down but writing is not really his thing. Ginny had offered her services as a writer on one of those internet sites and that’s where Alastair found her. The story evolved quite a lot during the writing process, and there were several versions before they reached the final one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you enjoy adventure with a bit of fantasy mixed into it, you’ll really like this book. It’s also about a boy who is bullied. If you know anybody who is being bullied – here are some ways<\/a> that you can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s available from Amazon as both an eBook and print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Adventures of Johnny the Penguin is the first titles in the series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is what it’s all about…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine being afflicted with an atrocious disease and not even realising that you have it? Ten-year-old Paul Balo has a rare genetic disorder which makes him smell like fish bait. His life is a miserable cycle of being nagged by his family to shower more often and being bullied by his peers. His only friends are a penguin named Johnny that understandably thinks he smells delightful and Polo, a rumbustious mutt, destined for the dog pound. Paul\u2019s camp money has been stolen by bullies and he\u2019s too afraid to tell his parents that he\u2019s not actually going\u2014they are convinced that school camp will be the making of their smelly son. Johnny saves the day by spiriting Paul and Polo off to the magical land of Wigwash for a week of fun instead. Without his parents\u2019 consent of course. But things don\u2019t work out quite as Johnny planned. The innkeeper\u2019s daughter convinces Paul to disobey an order and they inadvertently find themselves in a time when Wizards were evil and life was decidedly tough. Can Johnny save his friend? Will Paul ever see his family again? This is a whimsical story about Wizards, a magical land, courage and\u2026 custard! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A story about a bullied boy, a talking penguin, an abandoned mutt and the magical land of Wigwash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,80,12],"tags":[268,267,266,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}