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Childrens Literature in Southern Africa

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Latest Books

  1. How to Train your Dragon
    Cressida Cowell
    9-12 years years
    English
    Fantasy/Science Fiction
  2. My African World
    Compiled by Robin Malan
    6-8 years years
    English
    Fiction
  3. Helping Your Child Become A Reader
    Myrna Machet & Elizabeth Pretorius
    13-18 years years
    English
    Educational
  4. The Goblet Club
    Sally-Ann Partridge
    13-18 years years
    English
    Contemporary Fiction

News and Events

In case you missed it: Sunday Times/Nal'ibali launch storybook

The Sunday Times newspaper and The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) recently launched the new Sunday Times Nal'ibali multilingual Storybook series.

The illustrated stories will be printed in all our official languages, starting with English and followed with isiZulu and isiXhosa later this year. The

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