The popular Cool Nguni Series continues with this third story about Gaps, the cool Nguni calf. The Farmer's Show is coming up and there is a prize for Best Crop. Gaps wants to enter the show with some mealies. But first he has to grow them! His cousin Sugarbean wants to grow sugar beans (because they match her name). This means competition for Gaps. Who is going to use the ground now that Sugarbean has done the weeding? And so the two young calves being to fight. Gogo gives them advice, "An Nguni farmer always makes a deal". Can these cousins make a plan to work together? Will Gaps' mealies and Sugarbean's sugar beans be ready for the show? Eye-catching illustrations, a mealies and beans soup recipe, and how-to-tips on growing your own vegetables for kids, combine to make this a thoroughly readable, enjoyable and interactive book.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
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Maryanne and Shayle Bester are sisters who grew up on a Free State farm, where their father farmed cattle and sheep. They both graduated from the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Shayle majoring in Fine Arts and Maryanne in Dramatic Arts. Together they run a company as decorative painters and illustrators, specialising in children's art.
More about Maryanne BesterMaryanne Bester and Shayle Bester are sisters who grew up on a free-state farm in South Africa, where their father farmed cattle and sheep. They run a decorative painters and illustrators business that specializes in children's art.
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