Jamela s dress by niki daly biography

Set in South Africa, Jamela is to guard the material for her mother's dress drying on the line.

Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.

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Niki Daly

South African
Niki Daly has won many awards for his work. His groundbreaking Throng together So Zoom Songololo, prizewinner of a US Parent's Choice Bestow, paved depiction way call upon ... Grasp more

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Jamela's Dress

June 3, 2014

Jamela’s Dress is a heart-warming post-apartheid South African picture book about a little girl who just can’t resist her mama’s new, expensive dress fabric. Instead of looking after it while it hung to dry, Jamela wrapped herself up in the beautiful fabric and paraded down the street, causing it to get dirty and torn. Everyone is upset with Jamela, including Jamela herself, until Archie, a local photographer, saves the day just in time for Thelma’s wedding.

This book is most appropriate for children ages 4-8. It pairs short, simple text with beautiful, bold illustrations that really seem to supplement the words of the story. It deals with themes such as everyday life, the loving relationship between a mother and her daughter, and good intentions gone awry. Readers across the globe will find this story to be very relatable because it could happen anywhere to anyone, despite the story’s setting in Cape Town, South Africa. As a teacher, I would use this book in a cultural unit on South Africa and have students compare and contrast the setting of the story with that of our own. Students could also make connections to the story about a time they had good intentions that went awry or about a character from another book who faced a similar situation

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Niki Daly (1946-) Biography

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Children's Literature Review, Volume 41, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1997.

St. James Guide to Children's Writers, 5th edition, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.

Something about the Author Autobiography Series, Volume 21, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.

PERIODICALS

Black Issues Book Review, March, 2000, review of Jamela's Dress, p. 60.

Bookbird, 2002, review of Jamela's Dress, p. 38; 2003, review of Yebo, Jamela!, p. 58.

Booklinks, November, 2004, Jennifer Mattson, review of Where's Jamela?, p. 42.

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