First, a homily from The First National Bank of Dad by David Owen, lightly edited: Children who are read to regularly from early ages develop lifelong skills that can’t be acquired from the Disney Channel. They become better listeners and find it easier to pay attention in school. Their vocabularies grow rapidly. They develop the…
Manyoni lives on the African veldt and this book follows her on her walk to school one morning. She passes baobob trees and bushpigs and the fever tree pan and a herd of impalas and red sandstone koppies and meets up with her friend Tula. The illustrations are all double pages and sometimes it’s hard…
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