Book Descriptions
for Home Now by Lesley Beake and Karin Littlewood
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Sieta is a young South African girl who has been brought by Aunty to a new home in a bustling township that is very different from the more rural place she had lived with her parents before they died of AIDS. The grieving girl’s adjustment is eased when she meets an orphan elephant on a school trip to a nearby park and they become friends. Littlewood’s rich watercolor and gouache paintings add warmth and cheer to the somber narrative about the plight of so many children orphaned by Africa’s AIDS epidemic. bal
Originally published by Frances Lincoln Great Britain, in 2006.
From the Publisher
Sieta remembers a happy home far away over the mountains, but now she is living with her Aunty in a place she must call Home Now. Her new home is a busy, friendly place but Sieta can't seem to smile. One day she meets an orphaned baby elephant at the elephant park, Sieta begins to see things in a different light.
Includes a note about the plight of millions of African children who, just like Sieta, have lost their parents to the AIDS epidemic.