Silver Springtime by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer

Cecelia’s thesis entitled: THE LITERARY MANIFESTO OF H.P. Early stories were about a magic car that could fly and dive! Cecelia also loved poetry and pumped out many juvenile ditties.Ĭecelia moved to NSW to study, completing a Bachelor of Education, Diploma of Information Management and Master of Arts. Even before she went to school, she remembers scribbling for hours on a piece of paper in imitation of her mother’s messy cursive. In search of more riveting reading, she discovered Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christy and Stephen King.Īlong with the love of reading, Cecelia quickly developed a love of writing. Lewis, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Cecelia continued to read, discovering The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. The mystery story was so exciting, Cecelia finished it in one session and she was a fast reader from that moment onwards.

Reading was a slow process until one birthday she sat down with her gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), she was very different and mercilessly teased.Ĭecelia remembers the struggle to learn to read at primary school and this motivates her work in remedial literacy. She grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants. Cecelia was born in 1967 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer is the pen name used by Australian poet, author and researcher, Cecelia Hopkins.

Silver Springtime by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer