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Aesop's Fables by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
A little mouse saves the life of a great lion; hungry Grasshopper, too lazy to store food, gets no mercy from the industrious ants; crafty Jackal tricks Klipspringer to escape death - but is himself tricked by the cock and the dog!. Here are 16 of Aesop's wise, witty and timeless fables, portrayed for t ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's | Series: The Classics
'The Lion and the Mouse', 'The Eagle and the Tortoise' and many more favourite fables await. Sixteen spellbinding stories from Aesop's timeless collection are retold by Carnegie Medal winner Beverley Naidoo, depicted with stunning illustrations by award-winning Piet Grobler.
Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's
The Mau Mau - the name of a secret society that once struck terror into the hearts of British settlers in Kenya. An episode in history that ended in a State of Emergency, with violent and brutal acts dividing a nation. This is an intensely personal and vivid story of two boys: one black, one white. Onc ...Show more
Children of the Stone City by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A thrilling, resonant and inspiring novel about justice, privilege and the power of the young to strive for change. Set in a world where Adam and Leila and their friend Zak live as Nons under the Permitted ruling class. Then, when Adam and Leila’s father dies unexpectedly, their mother faces losing her ...Show more
Cinderella of the Nile by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Picture Books | Series: One Story, Many Voices
Beautifully retold by the award-winning author Beverley Naidoo, this earliest-known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern- day reader. Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken to Egypt. Along the way she becomes friends with the storyteller Aesop and a ho ...Show more
Great Tug of War, The by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's
Mmutla, the Hare is cunning. When you have Ntsu, the Eagle soaring high in the sky looking for her supper, and Tswhene, the Baboon vowing to throw you off a cliff, you need all the tricks you can think of. When Mmutla, the Hare tricks Tlou, the Elephant and Kubu, the Hippo into having an epic tug of war ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Picture Books | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: The Originals
NO TURNING BACK by Carnegie-medal winning author Beverley Naidoo is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of Johannesburg in the 1990s. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. South African society is on the brink of a huge cha ...Show more
S is for South Africa by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Picture Books | Series: World Alphabet
S is for South Africa where two oceans meet, cold Atlantic from the west and warm Indian from the east. Our country stretches wide over Africa's southern shores from golden beach to misty mountain, desert sand to grassy plain in a land of contrasts where we praise the sun - yet pray for rain!" From Cric ...Show more
S is for South Africa by Naidoo, Beverley
Category: Picture Books
"S is for South Africa where two oceans meet, cold Atlantic from the west and warm Indian from the east. Our country stretches wide over Africa's southern shores from golden beach to misty mountain, desert sand to grassy plain in a land of contrasts where we praise the sun -- yet pray for rain!" From Cr ...Show more
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Children's
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport, and they become fearful of their new surroundings.
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Classics
This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to London, with their father promising to follow. Abandoned at Vict ...Show more