Momo celebrating time to read

Publisher blurb: City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There’s no TV, internet or phon...

We all grabbed bailing vessels. Thunder cracked, and lightning streaked across the sky like a celestial tree revealing its branches for a sp...

Do you look like your dad? Do you look like your mum? In a family photo is it easy to see you really belong?  A new baby arrives in the fami...

A big brother is taking a basket of bananas to his Baba (grandfather), but he does not realise the baby has stowed away and is now riding on...

Crafty crows camped on the corners of the field. Monkeys mined for mealworms and munched mangoes. Bongani beat his drum and shouted, 'Ge...

Binti is a character you will never forget and this compelling, compassionate story will change your perspective on the world. Allen and Unw...

  This book made me cry. Yes it is a simple story but the beautiful act of kindness you will find here is so very moving and a moment to sha...

Little Manyoni wakes up early, gets dressed, eats breakfast with her parents and then she sets off alone across the wilds of Zimbabwe to rea...

Tola lives with her older sister Moji and her younger brother Dapo and their hardworking Grandmummy in Lagos, Nigeria. Daily life is a strug...

Atinuke has crafted another gem. A small story about a small girl set in a city and country possibly very unfamiliar to most readers. A sma...

 The Twelve Days of Christmas In my last post I talked about an Australia version of this famous poem. In this next post I am excited to hav...

This week I was lucky to celebrate Book Week in a small rural Steiner school . I took along around 60 picture books and spent the day sha...

Figgy takes the City is the third book in the series that began with Figgy in the world and continued with Figgy for President .  I said...