Story Cards

Author: Retold by Joanne Bloch

Illustrator: The birds can’t agree who should be their king, so they decide to have a competition to see who can fly the highest. At the agreed moment, all the birds fly up into the sky. Soon it looks like Nkwazi, the great fish eagle, is bound to win, but little Ncede the Neddicky bird cheated to take the title! When Ncede returns to the ground, he gets a very different reception than the one he imagined!

Author: Retold by Joanne Bloch

Author: Gcina Mhloph

Illustrator: Every day when eight-year-old Sisanda gets home from school, she changes out of her uniform, eats her lunch and plays a game of umlabalaba with her grandfather. They have so much fun flying their “cows” around the board that she doesn’t want to stop.

Author: Vianne Venter

Illustrator: Neo looked out the window of his room at the grey view of the grey street with all the wet, grey people hurrying through the grey, pouring rain. He couldn’t go outside, and he had already read all his books to Mbali.

Illustrator: When an old yellowwood tree was blown over by the wind, Joseph carved a little cradle out of its wood for his daughter. Soon, every new-born child in the village would be rocked in the cradle, creating a village tradition. Until one day, a veld fire threatened to change

Illustrator: A long time ago, a poor woman lived with her daughter, Tselane, in a little house. One day, a giants heard Tselane’s mother singing to her to open the door. Tselane looked like a scrumptious meal to him, and the giant came up with a plan to get her to open the door…