Since then, every children's/teenage book I have written has been published.' 'I started writing when a friend asked me to write down the stories I was telling at a kindergarten. 'I hitchhiked with my one-year-old daughter around Japan and Korea just after the Korean War and became stranded on the Niagara Falls Bridge without a passport'.Īn artist, she worked as a painter of landscapes and portraits for fifteen years and turned to writing in the 1980s. Able to speak five languages, she has visited seventy countries and actually lived in twenty of them. She was one of the first Australians allowed into China during the 1970s. Patricia & her husband Kenneth have four children: Marcelle, Shona, S'Haila, Tyru. Scot-Bernard, Trisha Bernard, Judy Bernard-Waite. Since then, every children's/teenage book I have Pseudonyms P. An artist, she worked as a painter of landscapes and portraits for fifteen years and turned to writing in the 1980s. 'I hitchhiked with my one-year-old daughter around Japan and Korea just after the Korean War and became stranded on the Niagara Falls Bridge without a passport'.

Monkey Hill Gold by Patricia Bernard