Jafta - My Father ¦ Jafta - The Wedding
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The Photographs on our cover are by Camilla Jessel and are taken from Learner Bird (Methuen, 0 416 22460 1, £3.95) We are grateful to Methuen for making it possible to use these illustrations.
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Jafta - My Father
Jafta - The Wedding
Lisa Kopper
Two very welcome new Jafta paperbacks, Jafta being a South African boy who lives in a village and whose father lives and works in the city. Despite the very specific setting, the feelings---love, loneliness and joy---are universal, so that these are books which one hopes will reach a very wide audience. In case you do not know this excellent series. Lisa Kopper's sepia pictures are fine examples of the illustrator's art and provide a superb complement to the episodes which the author presents from Jafta's viewpoint.
