17 Aug 2021

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It's Storytime! READ: Mrs Penguin's Perfect Palace (Download in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa)

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The Penguin family lives on the beach, surrounded by rubbish. Until one day, Mrs Penguin says: we need a house! But how will they build one?
The Penguin family lives on the beach, surrounded by rubbish. Until one day, Mrs Penguin says: we need a house! But how will they build one?

Mrs Penguin wants to build the perfect palace for herself and her family to live in, but when everything starts to go wrong, they have to try and try again.

This story about never giving up is brought to you by Book Dash, a local organisation that gathers creative volunteers to create new African storybooks that anyone can freely read, print, translate and distribute. 

Download the English PDF here

Download the Afrikaans PDF here

Download the isiZulu PDF here

Download the isiXhosa PDF here

Created at Book Dash by Celeste Beckerling (illustrator), Helen Brain (writer) and Jennifer Jacobs (designer). 

Find more stories in the Parent24 Storytime hub. 

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