In Spirit Storybooks, Aaron Zerah retells three traditional folk tales, Bamapama Chases the Kangaroo, Buddha Saves the Swan, and Jesus and the Birds of Clay. These stories are interesting for their aspects of the individual cultures and religions they stem from. The book is complete with fascinatingly beautiful, colourful paintings by world-renowned spiritual artist Della …

In The Kung-Fu Grasshoppers, the grasshopper’s children are taken prisoner by a hungry monster. Two strangers arrive in the grasshopper village, an old man and his granddaughter. Who are they, and can they help to save the grasshopper children from the evil monster who holds them prisoner in the nearby woods? This suspense-filled tale of …

Finbo the whale loves playing hide and seek, but he always loses. He is different from all the other fish, he is much bigger than them.  An endearingly cute story about learning values, the importance of appreciating differences, and avoiding peer pressure, and as a bonus there are some fun facts about whales. This book is highly …

Handmade in India is a journal style book from an artist traveling through the Indian countryside. The writer paints the artisans she meets and the many items they make. The text includes lots of information about the people and culture in the countryside of India. The beautiful water colour illustrations and descriptive texts really take …

Tania’s Discovery – Tania is digging for dirt for a gardening project, when she makes a curious discovery. Another great book in the Tania series. By: Kanika G     Sample Text From Tania’s Discovery: Tania was helping mama with her gardening. Mama wanted to grow some tomatoes. She had already got the seeds and …

The Job Hunt is an early chapter book, designed to be read in installments for a grade 2 class. This fun fictional story involves a seven year old boy and his older sister who is at college and looking for a job for her summer vacation. The book includes an English worksheet activity book, suitable …

This comic, Thinking Skills, brought to us by Siyavula, teaches incredibly important rationalization and study skills important to any field, scientific and otherwise. The concepts are explained in a user-friendly comic style, including detailed graphical representation and simple explanations. The topics covered are as follows: Classifying things – page 1 Concept mapping – page 11 …

King of the Killers – Can a T-Rex outwit two equally huge and hungry dinosaurs? What part does a Tuatara play in the battle? An exciting book with a lesson to learn, and have some fun afterwards looking up the dinosaur species in the book. The book is also available in a colouring book in …

The pond in the village is so blue and deep and refreshing, that is until irrigation plans were put in place and a factory was built neraby which dumped waste in the pond. Now the pond was polluted and nearly dried up. The village children decide to work together to make a difference, with a …

This fun elementary fiction book provides a great leisure or learning opportunity for elementary children. Emma encapsulates the essence of pure reading for joy in this book, while still providing a great resource for fiction exercises for elementary children learning to critique or studying creative writing styles and techniques. A collection of four fun stories …