Nelly Kazenbroot moved west to Qualicum Beach when she was nine. She attended Malaspina College and the University of Victoria, has won BC Arts Festival Awards for her paintings and has been commissioned to write lyrics for a group of children's songs and a choral work. She lives in Nanaimo, BC, with her husband, writer Stephen Guppy, and their two children. For her children's books, she has based her characters Googol and Googolplex on Lego characters she created long ago.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH: North York, Ontario
ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: 1969
ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: Dutch
EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: visual artist, lyricist
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Wild Life (poems). Windsor: Netherlandic, 1995
Down the Chimney with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Victoria: Orca Books, 2005
Under the Sea with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Victoria: Orca Books, 2006
Over the Rainbow with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Orca Books, 2006.
[BCBW 2006] "Kidlit" "Illustration"
DATE OF BIRTH: 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH: North York, Ontario
ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: 1969
ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: Dutch
EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: visual artist, lyricist
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Wild Life (poems). Windsor: Netherlandic, 1995
Down the Chimney with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Victoria: Orca Books, 2005
Under the Sea with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Victoria: Orca Books, 2006
Over the Rainbow with Googol and Googolplex (children's fiction, with interior illustrations by the author). Orca Books, 2006.
[BCBW 2006] "Kidlit" "Illustration"