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In this issue
02 for
Our top reads
Letter from: 9–12-year-olds
the editor Raya and the Last Dragon
In cinemas 19 March! 03
Hello Readers 04 The
Exclusive extract
Hatmakers – the first
adventure in a spellbinding
I can’t believe it is March already! In other exciting news,
new magical world.
And although we still find Refiloe Moahloli is back! Her
ourselves in uncharted waters, I new book, How Many Ways Can
The best new books
06
can’t help but feel a little hopeful. You Say Goodbye, will teach
Hopeful that this year will be children (and adults!) how to say for little readers
better than the last, hopeful that goodbye in all of South Africa’s Add an extra sprinkle of
the vaccine brings much needed 11 official languages. You can read magic to bedtime…
relief to all those on the frontlines, more about Refiloe on page 8.
and hopeful that we will be able And if you’re looking for
to get back to some kind of
normality in the near future.
inspiration when it comes to
the kitchen, turn to page 12.
07 why
7 Reasons
a book is the perf ect
In our new Autumn edition, Jax Moorcroft teaches us how gift for a child
you can look forward to reading to make delicious Butternut
an extract from The Hatmakers Chicken Subs – which even
Author Interview
– a spellbinding world brimming
with magic and wonder! And
children are sure to like! Jax’s
new cookbook, The Flexitarian
Shining the spotlight on 08
*proud moment* Tamzin is partly Foodie is out now. Refiloe Moahloli
10 talk
South African as she grew up And finally, make a note of
here before moving to England our upcoming releases – you
Everyone’s
in her early teens. don’t want to miss out. In the ing about…
these highly
I love the article on page 7, meantime, if there’s anything
anticipated YA reads
entitled: ‘7 reasons why a book you’d like to know, please contact
is the perfect gift for your child’, us, we’d love to hear from you.
written by Emma Baxter. I think Happy Reading!
14
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or even a graduation, a book
is always a good idea! Kim Peters
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Extract
CHAPTER 1
I
plunged into darkness. the pebbly window.
t was a wild and lightning- BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Thunder clapped overhead as
struck night. The kind of night Echoing up the five storeys of she pulled open the heavy oak
that changes everything. Hatmaker House came the sound door.
Jagged forks of light ripped of somebody pounding on the A crack of lightning split the sky
across the sky and thunder rolled front door. in two.
in tidal waves over the rooftops A man stood on the front
and spires of London. Cordelia scrambled down the step of Hatmaker House. He was
With the rain lashing down and ladder from her bedroom and drenched, ragged and gasping in
the clouds crashing above, it felt galloped along the top corridor. the wind.
like the whole city was under the Aunt Ariadne emerged from her It was not her father.
sea. chamber, wrapped in a plum-
But Cordelia Hatmaker was not coloured velvet dressing gown.
afraid. In her candle-lit room at the Uncle Tiberius appeared, grizzle-
CHAPTER 2
C
very top of Hatmaker House, she headed from sleep.
was pretending to be aboard the ‘Father!’ Cordelia cried, skidding ordelia stumbled backwards
Jolly Bonnet. The ship was being past them. ‘My father’s home!’ as the man lurched through
tossed by massive waves as she BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. the door, bringing the rain
staggered across the deck (really Cordelia raced down the spiral and the unruly wind into the house
her hearthrug), fighting a howling staircase that twisted through the with him. His rich brocade cloak
wind. middle of Hatmaker House. She smelled of sea spray and salt.
BOOM. hurtled past Great-aunt Petronella, ‘Lord Witloof!’ It was Aunt
‘Batten down those hatches, snoozing in front of the flickering Ariadne, carrying a lantern down
Fortescue!’ she yelled. ‘I’ve got to lilac fire in her Alchemy Parlour. the stairs. ‘What on earth has
lash myself to the wheel!’ She rushed past the tall doors of happened?’
A tin soldier stared blankly from the Hatmaking Workshop and, Lord Witloof was dripping a
the mantel. deciding that sliding down the puddle of rainwater on to the hall
‘Aye, aye, Cap’n!’ Cordelia corkscrew bannister would be floor.
squeaked, out of the corner of her quickest, in three heartbeats she ‘Alas, not earth, Madam
mouth. reached the bottom floor. Hatmaker, but sea!’ Lord Witloof
BOOM. Her bare feet slapped the cold wheezed. ‘Something has
‘Enemy fire!’ Cordelia cried, tiles of the hallway. She shook her happened at sea !’
seizing the back of her wooden head to chase away the dizziness Cordelia felt as though a
chair and heaving. Under her hands and ran (in not quite a straight line Siberian Ice Spider was crawling
it became a great ship’s wheel. because she was still a little giddy) down her neck.
BOOM. across the wide hall to the door. ‘Please, my Lord, tell us what
A violent gust of wind blew White light flared across the sky has occurred,’ said Uncle Tiberius.
the window open. The candle as she turned the hefty key in the ‘Has something happened to
sputtered out and Cordelia was lock. A tall figure loomed through the Jolly Bonnet?’ Cook appeared
4 Autumn Edition
Who is Tamzin Merchant?
Tamzin Merchant has been an actor since the age of seventeen.
Her acting work has taken her around the world and on
a journey through time. She has been a Tudor, a Victorian,
a Jacobean and a Georgian. She survived the Blitz in 1940
and succumbed to pneumonia in Edwardian times. She’s been
an alien, a witch, a doomed queen, a feisty Scottish warrior
and a rebellious high-society runaway.
The Hatmakers is Tamzin’s first book.
in the kitchen doorway, her hair in the wheel … but before the ship into the pillow, feeling as though
rag-rolls and a wooden spoon in could pass the rocks to reach the the saddest song she had ever
her hand. safe haven of Rivermouth, a terrible heard was trying to burst out of
‘Where is my father? Captain wave crested from the black ocean her. It howled through her stomach
Hatmaker?’ Cordelia’s voice was and cast the Jolly Bonnet upon and into her chest and wound
thin and quivery with fear. them. The ship was matchsticks in round her heart and up into her
Lord Witloof took the black a matter of moments.’ throat, where she could feel it
tricorn hat off his head and tipped Cordelia was shaking her head. juddering with despair.
out a large volume of water from Then she realized her whole self ‘Cordelia?’ whispered Aunt
its brim. was shaking. Ariadne, tiptoeing into the room.
‘The Jolly Bonnet,’ he ‘All went down with the ship,’ The thunder rumbled overhead.
pronounced, ‘has been sunk. Lord Witloof whispered. It sounded like ships crashing on
She crashed on to those ghastly ‘None survived.’ rocks.
rocks that guard the entrance to ‘But … no,’ Cordelia said. ‘My ‘My poor Cordelia.’
Rivermouth.’ father is the best swimmer I know. Cordelia lay with her whole
The wind howled through the He can swim through storms and body tense, determined not to let
house. whirlpools. He can’t have sunk!’ the sad song out of her mouth.
‘But my father? Where is he?’ Lord Witloof looked seasick and A warm hand rested on her back.
Cordelia asked. sad. Eventually her aunt said, ‘This will
The Ice Spider was spinning ‘Captain Hatmaker is lost at sea,’ help you sleep, my love.’
a freezing web around her insides. he said. ‘I am sorry.’ She stroked Cordelia’s hair aside
Lord Witloof looked down at his and Cordelia felt the velvet of a
boots. Cordelia’s grief and fury, stronger Moonbloom Nightcap being pulled
‘I was there. Waiting at the top than her shaking legs, carried her gently on to her head.
of the lighthouse to see that the back up the stairs. Aunt Ariadne’s The nightcap worked a dark-
ship was guided safely through voice was a ragged flag fluttering purple kind of magic and she was
the strait,’ he muttered, gripping behind her. A treacherous tide of asleep in the space of a single sigh.
his hat, knuckles white. ‘The palace tears swelled in her eyes as she felt Tentacles beckoned her from the
has been most anxious for Captain her way along the top corridor. deep and she called to her father,
Hatmaker to return with the final She wrenched open the door at but her voice was lost among the
ingredient for the king’s new hat. the end and the achingly familiar shapes of waves. All night long
But tonight …’ smell of her father broke over her. the words lost at sea, lost at sea,
Lord Witloof stopped, eyes filled It was the smell of spices he lost at sea whispered to her in
with horror. brought back from his adventures, storm-tossed dreams, and an
‘The sails came into view and cedar and woodsmoke and sea albatross keened and curled in
through the storm,’ he went on, air. Cordelia launched herself on to a strange sky.
face grey. ‘I was close enough to his empty bed and buried herself in In the morning, she woke
hear the crew’s cries on the wind, the scratchy wool blankets. with an idea.
saw Captain Hatmaker himself at She lay with her face pressed What is lost can be found.
The best new books for
little readers
Add an extra sprinkle of magic to bedtime
with these beautiful books for little readers.
Ed says:
‘Learn how to say
goodbye in all
of SA’s 11 official
languages!’
6 Autumn Edition
7 Reasons
why a book is the perfect gift
for a child
Written
by
Baxter, U Emma
sborneʼs
When you give a child a book as a gift, you’re actually Global C
ontent
giving them so much more. Here are 7 reasons Creator
why a book is a wonderful gift for any child.
1
6
A book is a gift for life.
4
Even as adults we can Books increase
return to our childhood Books help children intelligence later
favourites and pass them down relax. A study by Sussex in life. Numerous
to our own children. University showed that studies show that
2
reading reduces children’s stress children who read
by 68%. from a young age
5
Books never go out of develop higher intelligence later
fashion. Loom bands in life, as well as increasing their
and fidget spinners Books build empathy. knowledge of the world.
– remember them? Through reading,
7
Books never go out of children learn about
fashion or lose their appeal. people, places and There is so much
3
events outside choice, you can’t fail to
A book encourages a their own experience. They are disappoint. Whatever a
life-long love of reading. exposed to ways of life, ideas and child’s age or interests
Wrapped up beautifully beliefs that may be different from there is a book for them. Do
and given with love those around them. Books help they like computers? Jokes?
sends the message that a book is children chart their own moral Fantasy stories? Art and design?
something special, something to course and reflect on what’s right Unicorns? Dragons? Fun facts?
treasure. and wrong. There’s so much to choose from!
Are you
looking for
that perfect
gift? Here are
some ideas!
0-3 6-9 9-12 9-12
Autumn Edition 7
Interview with
Refiloe Moahloli
This month we speak to Refiloe Moahloli,
the best-selling author of How Many
Ways Can You Say Hello? The sequel,
How Many Ways Can You Say
Goodbye? is available now!
A
fter Sara and her friends What is your favourite thing as I write by my favourite tree
had an exciting journey about being a writer? in the garden, ease as I allow
in a hot air balloon to see I experience the world through the story to flow through me,
the country and find out how to words. I process through writing, excitement as the story unfolds,
say ‘hello’ in How Many Ways Can words allow me to express who devotion to see it through to
You Say Hello?, they are making I am – and are a way for me to completion, anxiety at having to
a return trip across South Africa share who I am with others. submit it to the publisher, ease as
to see more sights and to drop we move into the editing phase.
off the friends, one by one. As What or whom do you draw your And then absolute joy.
they do so, they also need to find inspiration from?
out how to say ‘goodbye’ to one I draw inspiration from my own Why did you decide to write a
another in all of the country’s 11 experiences, in relationships book about the different ways
official languages. with others. What I write about to say hello and goodbye in
But just as Sara starts to feel usually has some personal South Africa? Hello was written
sad, she discovers that ‘goodbye’ connection – either something with the intention that every
can be the start of something new, I have explored, am currently South African child (and the
something wonderful. Join her exploring or wish to explore. inner child in adults) recognises
and find this out for yourself too. their inherent worth and that
This is another delightful story What is your creative process? of another. Goodbye is about
of rhyming verse, accompanied The process is a cycle. embracing change, expressing
by charming illustrations, and Excitement at the idea, anxiety at the sadness in letting go, but
a must for all young South having to get something down, also recognising the joy in being
African children. And if parents/ blind panic as time ticks by, calm open to something new.
grandparents/carers aren’t sure
how to pronounce ‘goodbye’ in What is the one message you
all 11 official languages, there is a would like to convey to your
digital link to the text, narrated readers?
by the author herself, to guide Who you are is beautiful.
with authentic pronunciation. What you feel is important.
Tell us a bit about yourself Do you have any advice
outside of being a writer? for aspiring authors?
Hmmm tricky one, lately I think For as long as your heart
writing is all I do. I do love to is in it, there is hope; and
dance. And have very serious possibilities are endless.
dance parties with family.
8 Autumn Edition‘For as long
as your heart
is in it, there
is hope; and
possibilities
are endless.’
How Many Ways
Can You Say
Goodbye? is
available now at
leading bookstores
and online
Autumn Edition 9The brand new
thriller from
international
bestselling
author of One
of Us is Lying.
EVERYONE’S
TALKING
Ed says: “The
must-read ne
and immersive
w bold
West
ABOUT…
these HIGHLY-anticipated
d
African-inspire
fant asy se rie s.” Young Adult reads.
A new home. A perfect
family. A deadly secret.
10recipe Real food –
extract
conscious living
The Flexitarian Foodie is a collection of proudly
South African, budget-approved, family-friendly
recipes that show how achievable it is to eat
delicious, real food and live consciously and
mindfully, no matter the situation.
Butternut chicken subs
WHAT YOU NEED WHAT TO DO WITH IT
2 whole butternuts, halved 1 Preheat the oven to 180°C.
lengthways and seeds
removed 2 Rub the butternuts with olive oil and season the flesh with salt
Olive oil and pepper.
Salt and pepper
1 cup shredded leftover cooked 3 Place the butternuts skin side down on a baking tray and bake
chicken for 30–45 minutes, until a fork can easily be inserted.
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon coconut oil 4 Leave them to cool long enough so that they can be handled.
½ cup pumpkin seeds, toasted Using a spoon, scrape out the flesh into a bowl, making sure to
½ cup fresh basil, roughly keep the butternut skins intact for use later.
chopped, plus extra to garnish
½ cup grated hard cheese 5 Add the shredded cooked chicken, cinnamon, coconut oil,
(e.g. organic or grass-fed pumpkin seeds, more salt and pepper and the basil to the bowl
cheddar, parmesan) of butternut and mix everything together until well combined.
1 teaspoon ground paprika
6 Using a spoon, scoop the butternut and chicken mixture back
into the butternut skins. Sprinkle over the grated cheese evenly
and sprinkle over some paprika.
7 Increase the oven temperature to 200°C. Bake the filled
butternuts until the cheese has melted and parts of the
butternut start to crisp up. Garnish with extra basil before
serving.
SERVES 4
Jax Moorcroft is a busy mom of
two who moonlights as a blogger,
recipe developer and all-round
foodie enthusiast.
12 Autumn EditionRELEASE RADAR
Books for grown-ups
Be the envy of your book club as you tell them
all about your next favourite read…
What happens when your
experience of motherhood
is nothing at all what you
hoped for, but everything
you always feared? Ed says: “Fiercely
alive, disarmingly funny
and brimming with
tenderness, The One
Hundred Years of Lenni
and Margot unwraps the
extraordinary gift of life
even when it is about to
be taken away, and revels
in our infinite capacity for
friendship and love when
we need them most.”
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14 Autumn EditionREADER REVIEWS
This month, we asked Tammy February and Jerusha Behari what they’re reading…
Don’t Be Shy, Bushbaby
Avril van der Merwe TTTTT
Too long has the bushbaby been to play, but he doesn’t respond.
side lined in literature! Meanwhile, Owl watches.
These furry, nocturnal animals But when the other animals
are perfect storybook heroes, as have gone to sleep, the big-eyed
Avril van der Merwe demonstrates creature emerges to scamper,
in Don’t be shy, Bushbaby, aimed chatter, and snack the night away
at kids aged three to six. – like a true extrovert. His vibrant
In fact, so powerful a night-time activities jump off the
protagonist is Bushbaby that he’s page thanks to Heidi-Kate Greeff’s
Reviewed by Jerusha Behari the star of the show, even though warm, bold illustrations, which
@jerubehari his first appearance is only in the bring out the personalities of the
second half of the book. colourful characters.
The animals in the jungle are The message is clear: others
curious about Bushbaby; they may judge you but what they
never see him. They assume believe is irrelevant as long as you
he’s shy because he keeps to his are true to your nature. And there
hidey-hole all day. Giraffe, Monkey, will always be someone who gets
Warthog and the others try to you – just as Owl understands and
entice Bushbaby to come out accepts Bushbaby.
The Cousins TTTT
Karen M. McManus
Vengeance, lies and family secrets for the cousins to bond and finally
cast a long shadow in Karen M. meet the mysterious matriarch
McManus’s thrilling and twisty new who has been such a puzzle to
mystery YA novel. them all these years.
With her talent for creating When they arrive all is not what
riveting plot twists and unreliable it seems – and the teens soon
characters, Karen M. McManus’s discover that the Story family’s
The Cousins is told from the legacy is one that’s mired in deeply
perspective of Milly, Aubrey and rooted secrets; secrets that some
Jonah Story, three cousins who would prefer being left alone.
haven’t seen each other in years. The Cousins by Karen M.
And why would they, when their McManus is a delightful and
parents have barely spoken to each intricate mystery that’s both clever
other after being disinherited by in its set up and in its execution.
their mother for reasons they still At its heart it’s a story about
Reviewed by Tammy February struggle to understand years later. vengeance, the dangers of buying
bookfairyhaven.blogspot.com When the grandchildren are into the hype of your own family
@tammy_bookbell invited to spend the entire summer legacy and the far-reaching
Tammy24_7 at their elusive and enigmatic consequences of being blinded
grandmother’s resort, it’s a chance by privilege and entitlement.
Autumn Edition 15WAT’S LEKKER BY
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16 Autumn EditionDirty Bertie – the boy with nose-pickingly
disgusting habits – continues to delight readers
with his crazy plans and madcap ideas!
NEW!
Coming
April
Join Bertie as he
has a brush with
some angry bees,
deals with his
warring grannies
and tries to
smuggle Whiffer
into a very
smart hotel
Ed seratieyiss:
‘Dirty B
perfect for
6-9.’
readers aged
Autumn Edition 17SUPER SLIME
The most incredible, gooiest
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May June June
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