The Little Digger That Could
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Zones Zone operations are made directly in the full article text panel located to the left. Betty had been minding her grandchildren at the West Auckland home of her daughter Lisa of Lisa's Hummus fame during wet weather and saw a digger get stuck outside.
29 May - The "Little Digger" Again. - Trove
When her grandson awoke from his afternoon nap, she found herself saying the now-immortal line 'so they brought a bigger digger and the bigger digger stuck'. They [her grandchildren] kept ringing me, three times a day, saying 'granny, please tell us the story of the diggers'. I thought 'there's a picture book here'. After the first, she says, he had resigned himself to more work. But the subsequent books had less machines, and more landscapes and people in them — partly to keep Alan happy. The other influence was their other grandchildren, who each wanted their own stories.
Betty wrote children's book reviews for the New Zealand Herald for 25 years, and several books on the subject, including a biography of Margaret Mahy, which all helped: I used to meet people in the street who said 'that damn book, I have to read it over and over again'…'.
The Little Digger That Could
A few of the Digger illustrations will be in the Gilderdale exhibition at the NorthArt gallery in Northcote, Auckland, along with works from each of the phases of Gilderdale's career, selected by writer and curator Warwick Brown: It's been a process of discovery: If anything, I think he rather liked the idea the work would be there when he wasn't and he wouldn't have to worry about it. Some of the work will be for sale, some retained by the family. They still don't know whether it will get the recognition they feel it deserves.
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