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The Missing Ball
The Missing Ball

The Missing Ball

By Maryanne Bester, Illustrated by Shayle Bester

5-7

Cool Nguni

JUVENILE FICTION

32 Pages, 9.25 x 9.25

Formats: Paperback Picture Book

Paperback Picture Book, $7.95 (US $7.95) (CA $10.95)

Publication Date: February 2019

ISBN 9781770099982

Rights: US, CA, AU & NZ

Jacana Media (Feb 2019)

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Overview

Gaps and his cousin Sugarbean want to play a game of soccer before sundown. Help them find their missing ball, hidden somewhere in this wonderful African setting.The rhythmic text of the Cool Nguni series helps build children’s reading skills while they are absorbed in the inventive illustrations and the lives of the imaginative characters.This is the fourth story about the Cool Nguni calf named Gaps from the award-winning Bester sisters. Gaps's real name is ‘Gaps Between the Branches’. This is because it looks like he is sitting in the shade of a tree, and the sun is making shadows on his hide. Sugarbean's name is 'Sugarbean' because her hide looks like speckled sugarbeans.

Author Biography

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. 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.