Throughout Slowly! Slowly! Grandfather teaches Bongani and young readers the important virtues of patience, perseverance, resilience and being grateful for what you have. Illustrated by Helene Magisson, the young reader is transported to South Africa where the story is set. Slowly! Slowly! was the CBCA 2018 Notable Picture Book of the Year.
Bongani wants to go to school but he is too young. To prove himself, he's going to catch a monkey. Join Bongani in this story about patience.
Slowly, Slowly, you catch a monkey. Bogani wants to go to school but he is too young. To prove his family that he is big and strong just like his cousins, he tries to catch a monkey. Luckily his family is there to school him in the lessons of patience and compassion.
Born in Zimbabwe, T. M. Clark completed her primary school years at boarding school in Bulawayo. She attended senior school in South Africa, where she lived in the boarding school hostel as her home.She began writing fiction in the UK while a stay-at-home mum to her two sons and she hasn't looked back.Now living on a small island near Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, T. M. Clark combines her passion for storytelling with her love for Africa.Her first novel, My Brother-But-One, was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Award 2014. She is also the author of novels Shooting Butterflies, Tears of the Cheetah and Nature of the Lion, as well as a novella, The Avoidable Orphan, and a children's picture book, Slowly! Slowly!, a 2018 CBCA Notable Book, which are companion books to her novel Child of Africa.Readers can find T.M. Clark on Facebook (tmclarkauthor), Twitter (@tmclark_author) or visit her website at tmclark.com.au. Photo credit: KWC DesignHelène Magisson started her artistic career as a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination.Helène has lived in Africa, France and India and she is now settled in Brisbane with her family.In 2013, Helène started a new career in children's book illustration. Since then, she has illustrated several books including classics such The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco and more contemporary stories like Slowly! Slowly! by T.M. Clark, which was a CBCA 2018 Notable picture book of the year.
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