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Apr 23, 2011 Ronyell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: african-books, read-in-1993, weston-woods

I have actually seen this book on one of the Weston Woods videos and I have enjoyed this story ever since! 鈥淣ot So Fast Songololo鈥� is a children鈥檚 book by Niki Daly, which details a boy and his grandmother鈥檚 adventures in the big city when the pair of them go on a shopping expedition! 鈥淣ot So Fast Songololo鈥� is a truly cute book about family bonding that many children will definitely love to read over and over again!

The day started out when Malusi鈥檚 grandmother, Gogo, wanted to take Malusi to th I have actually seen this book on one of the Weston Woods videos and I have enjoyed this story ever since! 鈥淣ot So Fast Songololo鈥� is a children鈥檚 book by Niki Daly, which details a boy and his grandmother鈥檚 adventures in the big city when the pair of them go on a shopping expedition! 鈥淣ot So Fast Songololo鈥� is a truly cute book about family bonding that many children will definitely love to read over and over again!

The day started out when Malusi鈥檚 grandmother, Gogo, wanted to take Malusi to the city with her to help with her shopping and boy, what adventures does Gogo and Malusi have on their shopping expedition!

This was quite an unusual and fascinating book that I have read because the book is mainly all about a boy spending quality time with his grandmother in the big city, so the book is written in a half-way storytelling technique that you sort of have a plot in the story, but the plot seems to flow in a somewhat scattered direction that does not completely tell the whole story. Niki Daly has definitely done an excellent job at both writing and illustrating this book about a boy and his grandmother spending time with each other in the city! What was really interesting about this book was that it was set in South Africa. When I was small, I did not noticed this fact since the book never really stated that it was set in South Africa until I read the cover jacket of the book that stated that it took place in South Africa. It was also interesting seeing various South African names used in this book such as 鈥淢alusi鈥� and 鈥淕ogo鈥� and I was always interested in knowing the South African names. I also loved the way that Niki Daly focused the entire book on Malusi and Gogo鈥檚 relationship with each other as they truly care about each other and it was great seeing a well-grounded relationship between a child and their grandparents, which I thought that Niki Daly has depicted this so well. Niki Daly鈥檚 illustrations are extremely beautiful, especially of the images of Malusi and Gogo as Gogo is tall and is seen in a flowered dress that strongly shows her sweet nature and Malusi is shown as a small boy who wears a white shirt with blue short jeans and the fact that Malusi is always shown with a smile on his face just makes me feel warm inside every time I see him.

All in all, 鈥淣ot So Fast Songololo鈥� is a truly memorable book about family bonding that many children will cherished for many years! I would recommend this book to children ages five and up since the South African names might be difficult for smaller children to understand.
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Jun 11, 2012 贵箩贸濒补 rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-kids-5plus, kids-boy-books, kids-sentimental, picture-books, children-s-books

This is a very tender story about a little boy and the relationship he has with his grandmother. Malusi is, judging from the first spread of the story, the middle child in his family. The quiet, discreet, non assertive, shy child. He gets to spend the day with grandma Gogo. Malusi is not a man-of-many-words, and although it's not quite clear at first how he feels towards Gogo, in fact he might seem a little in awe of her or awkward around her (there's the scene of him staring into the pattern of ...more

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