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Patricia Schonstein: Saturday in Africa
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. Living history through poetry. Listed: Children's Book Forum Western Cape Honours List 1995/96. Listed: 100 Representative Children's Books 2004. Exhibited: 29th IBBY World Congress 2004 Cape Town. This poetry collection has been prescribed for and successfully used by many schools and stimulated good deb...
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Patricia Schonstein: Skyline
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. A novel set in Long Street, Cape Town. Winner of the Prix du Marais 2005. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award 2002. Second place in Sunday Times Fiction Award 2001. Long-listed in the prestigious IMPAC, Dublin International Award 2002. Listed: South African Twenty Five Must-Reads 2007. You will enjoy th...
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Patricia Schonstein: Thobile and the tortoises
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. Thobile and the tortoises. This is the second in the Thobile series in which he and his granny arrive in Africa from London. He discovers that the large game herds of the Eastern Cape are gone and, through an encounter with tortoises,. Suitable for children aged 3 5 (Read-to-me) 6- 8 (Read-alone).
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Patricia Schonstein: The Master's Ruse
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. Schonstein confronts rock-hard issues with this dreamily allegorical, surreal, apocalyptic tale. Her writing is poetically appealing, clear and clever. It laments the desecration of the earth's fragile infrastructure and considers the power of fiction as a tool for peace. Patricia Schonstein praat oor ste...
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Patricia Schonstein: Africa! My Africa!
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. Poems of love, loss and longing. These are arguably the most important anthologies of poetry to ever come out of South Africa. It is the yearning for the Beloved and it is always the Lover speaking. Is an impressive and amazing anthology.". Published by African Sun Press.
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Patricia Schonstein: Africa! My Africa!
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. An anthology of poems. Is an anthology of some 190 poems, compilation of which began in 1997 simply by choosing poems that touched me. As the collection grew, similarity in the 'types of fabric' that made up the whole became apparent:. Richard Freedman, Director of the. Birgitta Wallin, Editor,. This coll...
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Patricia Schonstein: A Gathering of Madonnas
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. A Gathering of Madonnas and other poems. Women victims of war form the central theme of these poems which capture the plight of refugees and displaced people. Suitable for young adults. ISBN 1 874915 14 8.
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Patricia Schonstein: The King Who Loved Birds
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A Time of Angels. A Quilt of Dreams. Xhosa, A Cultural Grammar for beginners. A Gathering of Madonnas. Maggie, Mango and Scottie. Thobile and the Tortoises. The King Who Loved Birds. We Call the Whales. The King Who Loved Birds. Selected for inclusion in Bookchat's list of Southern African Children's Books of the Year, 1992. An African king loved the wild birds of his hills and valleys more than anything else in his kingdom. Why, then, did they stop singing? And how did their songs return again?
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