Promoting and nurturing reading
from early childhood with exciting characters and eye-catching illustrations
that children will love, The Little Hands Trust has partnered with Jacana Media
to present the two latest sets of Little Hands Books, illustrated and written
by married couple Niki and Jude Daly.
Both sets are simple and accessible to all toddlers to help
encourage and nurture reading. The books are designed to give a gentle and quite
overt nudge into the world of images and words and the stories are written with
humour and whimsy: Follow Niki’s ‘little artists’ as they perform their
favourite activities and Jude’s beautiful watercolour illustrations of animals,
opposites, bugs and playtime. Reader participation is encouraged so that adults
also interact with the children and the books.
The Little Hands Books are available in English as well as
Afrikaans, isiXhosa and isiZulu, to ensure the development and love for reading
among South African children. The Funding Partners are The Rolf-Stephan
Nussbaum Foundation and the Goethe-Institut.
Niki Daly’s high regard for children is always beautifully
expressed through the books he creates for them. Over the past 35 years he has won
numerous awards at home and abroad for his lyrical writing and lively
illustrations. His 1986 book, Not So Fast
Songololo, winner of The Katrine Harries Award and a US Parents’ Choice
Award, paved the way for post-apartheid South African children’s books.
Among his many books, Once
Upon a Time was an Honor Winner in the US Children’s Africana Book Awards
of 2004. Jamela’s Dress was chosen by
the ALA as a Notable Children’s Book, by Booklist as one of the Top 10 African
American Picture Books of 2000, and won the Children’s Literature Choice Award,
the Parents’ Choice Silver Award and the Peter Pan Silver Award in Sweden. In
2009, Niki was awarded the Molteno Gold Medal for his major contribution
towards South African children’s literature, including the bestselling The Herd Boy.
Jude Daly lives just outside Cape Town with her husband,
author-illustrator Niki Daly. They are currently working on a book together called
Thank You, Jackson, to be published
by Jacana Media in February, 2015.
Children’s Books - Board Books com in sets of 4) at R120 per
set. For more information visit http://www.littlehandstrust.com/books.html
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