Prepare to be won over by kind-hearted Thoko

ARE you ready? Because here comes Thoko!

Thoko is resourceful, Thoko is kind-hearted, Thoko is full of fun and ready to meet you.

Hooray! Thoko is a book by award-winning author Niki Daly, the first in a series. It has four wonderful stories that all follow a girl named Thoko who is figuring out life. The beautiful text and illustrations make it impossible not to love Thoko and learn important life lessons on the way.

“Then she kissed Thoko on the forehead and whispered, ‘And that’s for being such a kind, thoughtful girl.’ Thoko touched her forehead and thought a little more as she drifted off to sleep: gold stars get curly corners and fall off, but kisses last forever!”

Daly makes reading about life as a child entertaining and realistic with his delightful new local heroine, Thoko.

Thoko skips through life, leaving behind a trail of laughter and a few frowns. She will become your new favourite friend.

Hooray! Thoko has four stories:

1. A gold star and a kiss for Thoko,

2. Thoko’s hat,

3. Thoko’s reward,

4. Thoko and a dog called Hope.

Daly has won many awards for his work. His groundbreaking Not So Fast Songololo, winner of a US Parents’ Choice Award, paved the way for post-apartheid South African children’s books.

Since then he has published widely and has given talks in several countries.

Among his many books,ks, Once Upon a Time was ann Honour Winner at the USS Children’s Africana Book Awards, and Jamela’s Dress ess was chosen by the ALA ass a Notable Children’s Book and by Booklist as one of the

Top Ten African Americann Picture Books of 2000.

In 2009 Niki was awarded the Molteno

Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.e. Other books include Nicholas and the Wild

Ones, Thank you, Jackson, n, The Herd Boy, Pretty

Salma, No More Kisses for r Bernard and Ruby Sings the Blues.

Niki is married and lives in Kleinmond in the Western Cape.