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Special days

(Ook in Afrikaans beskikbaar.)

This delightful little book must be one of the most fulfilling and most challenging I have ever worked on. It is lavishly illustrated by one of the greatest and most enduring South African illustrators, Alida Bothma. (Much credit for the success of this publication should also go to Jean Reid and Johan van Lill who worked hard to get the book through its various stages.)

There are two books with the same title: A HUGE book more than half a metre tall for the teacher and a smaller one for the younger reader.

The title says it all, it deals with specials days. We see the various celebrations through the eyes of the interpret photographer, Cameron Cameraman.

The following are tiny bits of detail from Alida's sketches, but one has to see them in full to appreciate their beauty. I grew up reading books with her sketches in them, so when I was asked to provide her with art briefs, it was a bit like sending an email to God. Even when those first very rough black and white sketches came back to me, her genius was visible. She read the text just as I had imagined it!

The book covers the following celebrations:

The Chinese New Year
	The Jewish Pesag
The Hindu's Diwali
	An African Ancestral commemoration
Islam's Eid-ul-Fitr
	A Christian Christmas
The Western New Year
	And Cameron's Birthday!

Because it was originally written as an aid for schools, the book is not readily available in shops, which is a pity.

Anyone keen to get a copy can write to me.