NB Publishers - children - Frankfurt 2011 Highlights

NB PublishersBooks for children and young adults

Human & Rousseau and Tafelberg are imprints of NB Publishers, the largest tradepublisher in South Africa.

NB PUBLISHERS is the largest general publisher in the South African bookmarket. We publish fiction, nonfiction, dictionaries and books for children andyoung people. The company is part of Media24 Books, the book publishingdivision of Media24, which is the largest newspaper, magazine and bookpublishing group in Africa. Media24 is part of Naspers, the largest media groupin the southern hemisphere.

We publish childrens’ books under the Human & Rousseau and Tafelbergimprints.

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Children’s and YoungAdult Books

from Human & Rousseau

Approved by the children of Africa for the world


Description:This book pays tribute to Nelson Mandela in five parts: his childhoodin the Eastern Cape, his political awakening in Johannesburg, hisimprisonment on Robben Island, his years as president, and hissubsequent celebrity status. Interesting snippets are interwoven withthe historical facts:

•A blog-format diary of children visiting Robben Island onMandela Day•“Did you know?”-boxes covering his first job, his nicknamesand favourite games as a child, and even when he first obtainedhis driver’s licence•Photos and illustrations showing highlights from his politicalcareer and personal life•Information about comrades, politicians, sporting heroes,movie stars, musicians and ordinary people and events•Quotes by himself and others relating to important events inhis life

This book is for browsing, reading, learning, but ultimately forenjoying.

About the author:Jomarié Dick is a freelance language practitioner based in Pretoria,SA.

Viva, Mr Mandela

Jomarié Dick

Pub date: October 2010

Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-0-7981-5154-2

Rights available: World rights in text only. Photo images

to be negotiated with relevant parties

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Description:A collection from a treasury of stories by master storyteller, Pieter W.Grobbelaar. Sly Jackal will leave no stone unturned to make lifedifficult for Wolf. But Wolf never learns his lesson and time and againhe steps into the traps that Jackal sets for him, to his great dismay. Lotsof humour and drama, but also valuable lessons to be learnt from theantics of these two much loved characters.

About the author and illustrator:Pieter W. Grobbelaar is a scholar of South African folklore and amaster storyteller. In 1969 he received the coveted C.P. HoogenhoutMedal for his very popular collection of folk tales Die mooisteAfrikaanse sprokies/Famous South African Folk Tales, and in 1971 hereceived the Tienie Holloway Medal for children’s literature.

Although Sean Verster loves producing photo realistic pencildrawings, he specializes in character development, cartooning andchildren’s illustrations. He has illustrated children’s books such as Diemooiste Afrikaanse sprokies/Famous South African Folk Tales andOperasie MIAAU. He has also developed characters for websites, TVcommercials, shopping malls and theme parks.

Jakkals en Wolf

Pieter W. Grobbelaar

Illustrated by Sean Verster


Pages: 232

Illustrations: Full colour

ISBN: 978-0-7981-5284-6

Rights available: World rights





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Description:Exquisite pictures by internationally award-winning artist, PietGrobler, complement this very special collection of Grimm stories.Marita van der Vyver, in her own right an accomplished writer in manygenres, has made a personal selection of her favourite Grimm fairytales. Well-known stories are Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf andSeven Goats, The Musicians of Bremen, Tom Thumb, The Frog Prince,Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, andmany more. Altogether 40 stories are included in this collection

About the artist and author:Piet Grobler is a well known, award winning and internationallyacclaimed South African illustrator of children’s books. Other books byhim: Makwelane and the Crocodile/Makwelane en die krokodil, Mia sema, Mia’s Mom, and many more.

Marita van der Vyver, in her own right an accomplished writer inmany genres, is a very popular South African author who also has adedicated international following. She lives in France.

Die mooiste sprokies van Grimm

Selected and retold by Marita van der Vyver

Illustrated by Piet Grobler


Pages: 288 pp


ISBN: 978-07981-5150-4





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Description:Will Sisi get safely home with the new clay pot? Will her picture makeher grandmother smile? Do her friends miss her? Meet Sisi, her familyand friends in this delightful compilation of story and rhyme, that isfilled with warmth, love and friendship. Beautiful, expressiveillustrations by internationally known artist, Joan Rankin, complementthe sparingly written, but spot on text. In June 2011 Just Sisi wasawarded the MER Prize for illustrated children’s books.

About the author and illustrator:Recent titles by Wendy Hartmann are: In a House, In a House(Shortlisted for the MER Award in 2010), Nina and Little Duck(Awarded the MER Prize in 2008) and We’re Having a Party. Wendylives in Cape Town. Apart from writing, she also paints in her own timeand she is an inspired gardener.

Joan Rankin lives in Johannesburg and is a well known awardwinning South African artist who has earned international acclaim..

Just Sisi

Wendy Hartmann

Illustrated by Joan Rankin

Pub date: September 2010

Pages: 112


ISBN: 978-0-7981- 5220-4





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Description:Jenna Brooks is a sixteen-year-old whose life is anything but easy. Herparents are divorced, the boy she's had a crush on for years has starteddating her arch-nemesis, and she feels as if nobody understands her.Just as life seems to have become totally unbearable, she receives aFacebook friend request from a handsome stranger named Robert Rose.Robert appears to be the answer to her prayers. He's good looking,understanding, romantic, and wants to be her boyfriend. However, asJenna finds out, everything is not always as it seems. Dark Poppy'sDemise explores the very real dangers of online relationships in amanner that is gripping, intelligent, and vivid.

About the author:SA Partridge is a young novelist from Cape Town whose first novel,The Goblet Club, won the English category in the You/Huisgenoot I ama Writer competition in 2007 as well as the MER Youth Prize in 2008.Her critically-acclaimed style of writing is so popular with the youththat it was adapted into a school play entitled Gif (Poison). Her secondnovel Fuse (2009) was shortlisted for the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize andchosen for the IBBY-SA Honour List 2011. This year she was namedone of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in the Arts andCulture category.

Dark Poppy’s Demise

SA Partridge

Pub date: June 2011

Pages: 186

ISBN: 978-0-7981-5544-1

Rights available: World rights, including e-book




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Description:Kendall Mullins hates high school, almost as much as he hates thesituation at home, but that all changes when Craig Baumgarten joinshis class. Craig makes life at Percy Fitzpatrick High almost bearable,until the bullies set their sights on the new best friends and Craighatches a plan to fight back with devastating consequences. As Kendallis drawn in deeper he finds himself in a situation he can't escape andit’s up to his brother Justin to protect him. The Mullins brothers flee thesuburbs as they attempt to outrun the law and the wrath of their parents,but on the streets of Cape Town they find that life just got very real.

About the author:SA Partridge is a young novelist from Cape Town whose first novel,The Goblet Club, won the English category in the You/Huisgenoot I ama Writer competition in 2007 as well as the MER Youth Prize in 2008.Her critically-acclaimed style of writing is so popular with the youththat it was adapted into a school play entitled Gif (Poison). Her secondnovel Fuse (2009) was shortlisted for the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize andchosen for the IBBY-SA Honour List 2011. This year she was namedone of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in the Arts andCulture category.

Fuse

SA Partridge

Pub date: June 2009

Pages: 218

ISBN: 978-0-7981-5087-3





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Description:When Jamie James goes to Nelspruit near the Kruger National Park togain work experience with a wildlife vet, he also has a secret mission:to release his family from a two-hundred-year-old curse. He befriendsSamantha and Shadrak, who help him on his quest, and also encountersMafutha the elephant and Savannah the cheetah. These two animals,along with others, play an important role in Jamie’s understanding ofhimself and his past. Set against a backdrop where caring for wildanimals is a calling, this is a story of fear and hope – as well asendurance, friendship and reconciliation.

About the author:Roy Aronson is a veterinary surgeon in a private practice and has hadextensive experience with both domestic animals and wildlife in theAfrican bush. He was the presenter of a TV series called Dr Roy’s VetSafari which was also documented in his book Tales of an African Vet.Roy is interested in African mysticism and ancestral worship andcommunications, and has made a study of this subject, collectinginformation and firsthand experience and documentation about thissubject as well as interviewing indigenous peoples and visiting somesacred sites where African mysticism and alchemy were practised.Jamie James and the Curse of the Ancestors

Roy Aronson

Pub date: August 2011

Pages: 218

ISBN: 978-0-7981-5580-9




Children’s & Juvenile Fictionfrom Tafelberg Publishers


Description:

This comprehensive collection of stories will open up the wide, wide world offairy tales and other folklore to children.A short annotation at the end of each story points out the land of origin andputs the stories from Africa, Europe, the East and other parts of the world incontext with one another.Fiona Moodie’s evocative illustrations are drypoint etches printed by hand andpainted afterwards – an intricate process that took more than two years tocomplete. The enchanting results make this book an art treasure for everychild privileged enough to receive it.

Awards:

M.E.R. Prize for Children’s Literature 2010Alba Bouwer Prize for Children’s Literature (for best Afrikaans children’sbook published during 2007-2009)IBBY Honour List 2010: Linda Rode as author

About the author and illustrator:

Linda Rode is an avid collector and lover of fairytales. Other collections ofstories published by Tafelberg are Goue lint, my storie begint, Goue fluit, mystorie is uit, and Stories vir die vaak, which was also available in English asTick Tock Story Clock. Her storytelling style is perfect for reading aloud.Fiona Moodie is internationally known as writer and illustrator of children’spicture books. In 2007 she illustrated Antjie Krog’s Fynbos Fairies (publishedby Umuzi, an imprint of Random House, South Africa).

In the Never-Ever Wood

Linda Rode & Fiona Moodie


Pages: 256

ISBN: 978-0-624-04768-1

Rights available: World rights, including e-book,

except Spain




Description:

A poetic, evocative picture book about soccer and freedom, and a portrait of avery special relationship between grandfather and grandson.What Rashied wants most is something round. “Something round?” Grandpaasks at bedtime, and the following morning at breakfast. When Rashied poursmilk around the porridge in his blue bowl, he sees Robben Island in the bowlin front of him! Then Grandpa tells the story of his time on the island, yearsago, and how their games of soccer made them forget that they wereimprisoned and gave them hope to carry on.

Praise for A Wish This Big:

I have a wish as well. That this bright, bold, artistic, simple yet deep picturebook could be put in front of everyone who does not understand what is meantby a truly South African children’s literature, everyone who does notappreciate the word ‘relevant’, everyone who wants books to cling to the pastinstead of reaching for the future. It’s great! Jay Heale on Bookchat.co.za.


Ingrid Mennen is the author of internationally acclaimed picture books OneRound Moon and Ashraf of Africa (both illustrated by Niki Daly). She hasthree grown-up children and lives in Claremont, Cape Town.

Katrin Coetzer is a fine artist and graphic designer. She is currentlycompleting her Masters in Illustration at the University of Stellenbosch. Thisis her second published book.

A Wish This Big

Ingrid Mennen & Katrin Coetzer

Pub date: March 2011

Pages: 32

ISBN: 978-0-624-04883-1




Praise Song

Jenny Robson

Pub date: July 2006

Pages: 128

ISBN: 978-0-624-04329-4

Rights available: Worldrights, including e-book,except Germany, Swedenand Brazil

Description:

Praise Song is a whodunit that starts off with the schoolgirl Gaone who, onher way to school, comes upon the body of one of her favourite teachers,the choir-mistress – murdered.Interwoven with this mystery is the story of Goane’s battle to keep herbeautiful, giddy younger sister, Precious, and Ebenezer, the local Don Juan,apart. Ebenezer is much too old and too experienced for Precious, and it isan open secret that he has an on-off affair with a truck-driver’s wife. Andeven though Gaone knows that it is wrong to say that all truck-drivers haveAids, she is worried sick . . .

Awards:

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2005

MER Prize for Youth Literature 2007

About the author:Jenny Robson is best known for her youth novels, having won the SanlamPrize for Youth Literature a record five times. She is the author of BecausePula Means Rain, for which she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for YouthLiterature in the Service of Tolerance. The author is a teacher at theOkavango International School in Maun, Botswana.


Desert Prisoner

Andrea Abbott

Pub date: September 2011

Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-0-624-05290-6

Rights available: Worldrights, including e-book

Description:

What would you do if you were left behind in the desert? Would you stay put inthe hope that someone would find you? And if that someone turned out to be ascrawny stray dog, would you follow him?This is 12-year old Leo Knight’s dilemma when he is abandoned in the remoteNamib Desert without food, water, or shelter from the searing sun. When nohuman help arrives, he seizes his only chance for survival – he follows amysterious dog that pitches up out of the blue.So begins a trek across the harshest of terrains that will challenge every last bit ofLeo’s strength and willpower and plunge him into more danger than he canimagine. He and his canine companion have to muster all their cunning andcourage to bring about a daring escape.But with the odds stacked heavily against them, can they succeed?

About the author:

After years spent teaching at Natal University in an attempt to justify havingstudied English and Linguistics, Andrea Abbott threw in the towel to do what shereally wanted to do: write.Approximately thirty children’s books later – all written under two pseudonymsfor a London-based company, Working Partners – she decided it was time to writeunder her own name for children in her own country and continent. DesertPrisoner is the first of her home-grown novels for young readers.Very proudly South African and strongly committed to nature conservation,Andrea draws enormous inspiration from wild Africa, the subject of many of herfreelance features that are published in magazines such as Country Life. She lives

in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.


Sidekick

Adeline Radloff


Pages: 200

ISBN: 978-0-624-04918-0


Description:

Seventeen-year-old Katie Holmes lives with her adoptive mother, the housekeeperof a fabulous house in Camps Bay, Cape Town, belonging to the gorgeous hunkFinn O’Reilly. Finn has the ability to stop time, to move into what is called“untime”. Katie can’t stop time but, uniquely, can function in “untime” and worksas a sidekick to Finn.The writing has a lively and sophisticated edge which makes the story moresuitable for older teens. Certainly girls will love the strong, honest relationship ofKatie with the mysterious Finn, while boys will be attracted by the Porsche Katiedrives and the “action” sections of the story.

Awards:

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Gold) 2009

Shortlisted for the M.E.R. Prize for Youth Literature 2010

About the author:

Adeline Radloff enjoyed a misspent youth, working and travelling through morethan twenty five different countries. Somewhere along the line she picked up a lawdegree as well as an MA in English Literature, and has worked as a cinemaoperative, a beauty consultant, a legal aid assistant, a waiter, a perfume girl, abartender, a freelance journalist, a breakfast chef, a candidate attorney, a languagespecialist, a housewife, an editor, a barista, an EFL teacher, an academicdevelopment tutor and a mother.She still enjoys being a mother, and now dreams of becoming a teacher. Sidekick isher first novel.


Agency Blue

Alex Smith


Pages: 168

ISBN: 978-0-624-04917-3


Description:

An illustrated youth novel, a cross-over between a graphic novel and a full-textteen fiction work.

Joe Blue Siyengo is born in miraculous circumstances. He is an orphan but has adevoted older brother who recognises his talents for drawing. Joe excels at art andbecomes a drawer of comic books. In a story that moves between the creator andthe created, the story is told of Kitty and her gang of hip young friends who mustsolve the riddle of Kitty’s father’s death. This takes them on some wild adventuresas they solve a series of riddles in order to find out the truth.The writing has a wry, understated sense of humour and rich, sensory descriptionsof Cape Town.

Awards:

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Silver) 2009

About the author:

Born in Cape Town, Alex Smith has lived in China, Taiwan and the UK, andwhen still working as a designer and textile merchant travelled extensively to otherparts of the world. She is the author of three works for adults: Algeria’s Way(2007), Drinking from the Dragon’s Well (2008) and Four Drunk Beauties (2010),all published by Umuzi, an imprint of Random House. She was shortlisted for the2009 PEN/Studinsky Awards and the 2010 Caine Prize for her short story“Soulmates”. She was awarded the 2011 Booksellers’ Choice Award for her novelFour Drunk Beauties.


Signed, Hopelessly inLove

Lauri Kubuitsile


Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-0-624-05288-3

Rights available: Worldrights, excluding e-book

Description:

When Amo is asked to write the agony column of her school newspaper, she findsherself giving advice to the boy she is in love with, with dire results. Can she facethe humiliation of having declared her love believing that it will be reciprocated?Signed, Hopelessly in Love hits all the core notes for a great read: it is set in highschool, with entertaining main characters and incidents, there is the great lovestory of Amo and John, and the interfering parent in Grandma, not to mentionschool bitchiness in the attack on Amo’s best friend, Nono, on the athletics track.

A wonderfully original and humorous story, set in Botswana.

Awards:

Shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2009

About the author:

Lauri Kubuitsile is a full-time writer living in Botswana. She has published threechildren’s books, two detective novellas and three collections of short stories forchildren co-written with two other Batswana writers. Her first romance novel,Kwaito Love, was published by Sapphire Press in April 2010, and two more in thisseries has followed since. She was the 2007 winner of the BTA/Anglo PlatinumShort Story Contest and the recipient of the Botswana Ministry of Youth andCulture’s Orange Botswerere Award for Creative Writing in the same year. In2009 she won the Baobab Literary Prize (USA) in the junior category. She wasshortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize for one of her short stories.Kubuitsile is married and has two teenage children.


As jy ‘n ster sienverskiet

Maya Fowler

Pub date: June 2011

Pages: 160

ISBN: 978-0-624-05286-9


Description:

Riekie, aged 14, has been suspended from school. Her older brother, Wayne, isdying of an Aids-related illness and her hippie mother, who sobered up for a while,goes back to alcohol because of Wayne’s predicament.After Wayne’s death, Riekie runs away and works in another small town in arestaurant at a filling station. When she hears that her brother’s girlfriend has lefttheir baby with Riekie’s mother, she finds a reason to go back home, to face up toschool once again, and to provide the baby with the mothering she didn’t getherself.

Awards and praise:

Shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2009

“The story left me with a deep ache of pity for this girl . . . there is power in thestorytelling.” Penny Hochfeld, Sanlam Prize judging panel.

About the author:

Maya Fowler was born in Cape Town in 1980. She started her schooling inStellenbosch, but went on to spend most of her childhood in the Karoo town ofGraaff-Reinet (the town where this book is set). Maya holds a BA and an MA(Linguistics) from the University of Stellenbosch and currently works as afreelance language practitioner in Cape Town. Her first novel, The Elephant in the

Room, was published by Kwela Books in 2009.


Speurhond Willem series

Elizabeth Wasserman

Illustrated by Chris Venter

Pub date: May 2010 (Book 1) &June 2011 (Book 2)

Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-0-624-04842-8(Book1) & 978-0-624-05285-2(Book 2)

Rights available: World rights,including e-book

Description:

Adriaan is somewhat of a nerd and does not really excel at anything. But his dog,Willem, is a secret agent spy dog, known and feared all over the world.In Book 1 Speurhond Willem op reis (Spy Dog Willem on Tour) Adriaan andWillem travel to Istanbul under the pretence of Adriaan going on a soccer tour. Intrue espionage-style action, Willem’s contact awaits. From there the hunt for thevillain Sybrand Swiffervalk leads them to Venice, Paris, Amsterdam and finally toLondon, England.In Book 2 Speurhond Willem en die seerowers (Spy Dog Willem and thePirates)Adriaan’s mum wins a luxury cruise holiday and takes her son along.Willem goes along as a stowaway. When modern-day pirates take the ship hostageWillem’s sleuth skills save the day. Adriaan and Willem work together to foil thepirates’ plans, which include finding a long-hidden treasure on the tiny island ofTromelin.In Book 3 Speurhond Willem en die wilddiewe (Spy Dog Willem and the GameThieves) Adriaan and Willem visit Adriaan’s aunt on her game farm in theBushveld. Here they are instrumental in the apprehension of an international rhino-poaching syndicate.

Awards and praise:

Book 1 was shortlisted for the ATKV Children’s Book Awards 2011 Gr 4-5

Runner-up: KleinB/Tafelberg Children’s Story Competition 2009


Prof. Elizabeth Wasserman is head of the Department of Medical Microbiologyat the University of Stellenbosch. She is also the author of Meerkatrestaurant (acollection of animal poems for young children) and Anna Atoom, a series of threenovels for older girls, to be published by Tafelberg during 2012.

Chris Venter is a young and upcoming freelance artist based in Cape Town.


Goblin Diaries: Apprenticed to theRed Witch

Alex D’Angelo

Illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden


Pages: 128

ISBN: 978-0-624-05289-0

Rights available: World rights, includinge-book

Description:

Enter the world of the Goblins. Lots of Goblins. Goblins as you’ve never seenthem before: Meet Mom, Dad, Great-Uncle Sylvestris, the crooked Uncle Viley,the even-crookeder Uncle Pedley, the dim brother Bolverk, the wildbrother Grimmy, and the youngest brother Ymaldris, whose diary this is.All they want is to get by - find a place to live, get a regular supply of ratburgers,stay out of jail, defrost Great Uncle Sylvestris and regain a necklace that stranglesits wearer and which the Dark Lord is very cross with them for losing.Along the way they’ll encounter swamp ghouls, well monsters, broomstickcavalry, biting doorknockers, the Dark Lord's police, Mr. Vouter the Vampire,Sergeant Smeltass (don't laugh, he can't help his name), a pot-bellied forge dragon,some nasty Elves, and a very highly strung and slightly bonkers Red Witch.Good luck to them.


Alex D’Angelo has an MA in medieval literature and runs the Humanities Libraryat the University of Cape Town. This is his fourth book for Tafelberg and hehas contributed two stories to the internationally successful collection MadibaMagic.

Since the publication of her first picture book in 1983 Marjorie van Heerden haswritten and/or illustrated more than a hundred children’s books and has beenpublished in 33 languages in Africa, England, Europe, Canada and the USA. Bornin South Africa, she has lived in Stellenbosch, Johannesburg, the USA and Greece.She now works from her studio in the coastal village of Gordon’s Bay, near CapeTown.


Description:

Tommy, the newcomer at Colliery Primary wears a balaclava to schoolevery day. Why?What could possibly be underneath? A terrible scar?Some alien life form?Dumisani and Doogal, aka the Doo Dudes and best friends in theworld, are determined to find out. Whatever it takes.With line drawings by Sandy Mitchell, a freelance artist from KalkBay, Cape Town.

Praise for Balaclava Boy:

“Balaclava Boy is Jenny Robson on holiday, writing for the fun ofdoing so and the knowledge that we’re going to laugh as well.” JayHeale, bookchat.co.za.

About the author:

Jenny Robson is well known for her youth novels.She has won the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature five times. PraiseSong, the last winning novel, was also awarded the MER Prize foryouth books. For Savannah, 2116 AD she was awarded the PercyFitzpatrick prize, and she attended the Berlin Literary Festival in 2004on invitation. After a brief period in South Africa, Jenny returned to herbeloved Botswana in 2009, where she teaches at the OkavangoInternational School in Maun.

Balaclava Boy

Jenny Robson

Pub date: May 2009

Pages: 96

ISBN: 978-0-624-04731-5

Rights available: World rights,including e-book, except Germany


Madiba Magic: Nelson Mandela’sFavourite Stories for Children

Pub date: 2002

Pages: 144

ISBN: 978-0-624-04073-6

Rights available: World rights except USA(English), German, Swedish, French,Italian, Korean, Spanish, Hebrew,Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Dutch,Turkish. E-book rights negotiable

Description:

From the cradle of mankind comes a kaleidoscope of a book refractingAfrica in its myriad facets and hues. These thirty-two stories from acrossthe African continent – Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana,Lesotho, to name a few, and, of course, South Africa – were chosen byNelson Mandela.

Praise:

“A treasure for everyone in the family” – Bill Cosby (about WWNorton’s American edition)

About the book:

There is a foreword by Nelson Mandela, a glossary, and informationabout the contributing authors and illustrators.

A part of the proceeds of the book go to the Nelson Mandela Children’sFund.


Description:

Based on the true unsolved mystery dating back to 1909, thedisappearance of the 500 foot steamer remains one of the most bafflingnautical mysteries of all time. The disappearance of the ship en routefrom Australia to England via the Cape with 211 passengers and crewhas given rise to various books and fascinating research and theories onwhat may have happened. The author has woven a story around thehistorical facts, involving present day children doing research of theirown.A slice of maritime history examined and made enticing for youngreaders.


Marilyn Honikman has been involved in writing and with writers allher life: from publicity and promotion of books for Ravan Press andDavid Philip Publishers to her work as a journalist at The Weekly Mailand Mail and Guardian.After much encouragement from friends and family she started to writestories for her grandchildren; and this is one of them. She lives inNewlands, Cape Town.

Brice Reignier is a freelance designer and illustrator from Cape Town.

The Mystery of the SSWaratah and the AvocadoTree

MJ Honikman & Brice Reignier(ill.)

Pub date: April 2010

Pages: 128

ISBN: 978-0-624-04817-6




Description:

The Bird of Heaven takes the reader on an exciting journey into theworld of Swazi magic and ritual, a reality full of wonder in which themystical and mundane overlap and interact. Mandla, a youngapprentice sangoma (diviner) is chosen by the Ancestors to oppose thewitchcraft that threatens the Swazi nation.

Awards and Praise:

Winner of the M.E.R. Prize for Youth Literature 2010

“I consider this novel a ‘tour de force’ in presenting African magic asreality and also as a powerful parable of Good fighting against Evil.Nowhere yet in indigenous South African writing for young people isthere such a book.” - Jay Heale

About the author:

Peter Dunseith currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He retired as ajudge of the Industrial Court of Swaziland in 2009. He lived inSwaziland for 30 years, working as an attorney and then as a judge.This is his first book.

The Bird of Heaven

Peter Dunseith

Pub date: April 2009

Pages: 264

ISBN: 978-0-624-04557-1


Contact detailsHuman & Rousseau

Aldré LateganPublisher: Children’s & Youth Books and Dept. Head

Tel.+27 21 406 3033/3394Fax. +27 21 406 3812

[email protected]

Contact detailsTafelberg

Michelle CooperEditor: Children’s & Youth Books

Tel. +27 21 406 3033/2778Fax. +27 21 406 3812

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or you may want to visit NB Publishers at www.nb.co.za




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