The Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa Paperback – June 8, 2007

Such a lovely, warm, and wise story (about shortcuts vs. hard work/purpose) from the country where I was born. May God Bless South Africa!

This little tale has a very cute lesson for life in general… I was luck to come across it . A Hard book to find .

My class enjoyed this story. Great for our Africa unit of study.

I purchased this book because I wanted the children to hear a story about another culture. We are learning about South Africa now and conincidentally had just planted sunflower seeds in our garden. The children thought it was funny when Thulani wanted to bask in the sun all day and his wife, Dora, kept coming up with more for him to do.

Really nice story and wonderful lesson - my 3 year old loves it.

An amusing tale from South Africa about a man who does everything to please his wife but with each try comes something unforeseen until he mistakenly buys sunflower seeds instead of corn seeds and then his luck changes.Written by Dianne Stewart, illustrated by Jude Daly and published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.#PB #SouthAfrican #Tale

I wanted to get a friend a little something from a country she used to live in. This was the perfect choice.

In South Africa, Thulani is tired of milking his cow every dayso he exchanges it at the store for a goat. That doesn't work - toomuch trouble so he makes some more exchanges ending up with a pocketful of seeds. As his wife Dora tends the fields of growing sunflowers, Thulani goes back to dozing beneath the hot sun. When the sunflowers drop their seeds & he feeds them to his chickens - ah! amazing things begin to happen & Dora is happy! Lively story & lovely pictures with some good ideas about work & play, labor & results. A treasure! Great gift material...

this book is a great story. The condition of the book was great and price was good value.

I think it is well written and a good way for getting children to think about decision making also that things are not always instant in this current world of instant!

I read this to my class as part of a focus on South Africa. age 9-10 years. They really liked the story- the illustrations are great too. would recommend this book for age about 5 to 9 years.

Book in great condition and as advertised. Fast delivery. Great service. Highly recommended. A lovely story about the sun and how it helps us.

A sweet african story.