Have you ever wondered what you should be charging for illustrating? SAFREA (Southern African Freelancers' Association) suggests some minimum rates. These can be accessed at: http://www.safrea.co.za/. The following rates were suggested in 2007/2008.
RATES
SAFREA suggested Minimum Rates 2007/2008
DESIGN AND ARTWORK 2007/8
Artwork: Black and white per piece
Filler R150.00
A5 half page R250.00 - R450.00
A5 complex R300.00 - R500.00
A5 three quarter page R300.00 - R500.00
Narrow Crown to A4 (simple) R485.00 - R550.00
NC to A4 (complex) R600.00 - R750.00
NC to A4 double spread (simple) R800.00 - R1200.00
Nc to A4 double spread (complex) R1100.00 - R2000.00
Artwork full colour per piece
Filler R175.00
A6 or quarter page R225.00
A5 or half page R300.00
A5 complex full page R600.00
A4 three quarter page 600 - R750.00
Narrow Crown to A4 (simple) R600.00 - R800.00
NC to A4 (complex) R800.00 - R1100.00
NC to A4 double spread (simple) R1500.00 - 2000.00
Nc to A4 double spread (complex) R1750.00 - 2500.00
Artwork DTP/Technical per piece
DTP/computer generated a/w (including maths) (simple) R 75.00 - R300.00
DTP/computer generated a/w (including maths) (complex) R300.00 - R550.00
Technical drawings R390.00 R250 - R550.00
Medical illustrations R300.00 - R1500.00
Graphs R200
Maps per piece
B&W Narrow Crown - A4 (simple) R400.00 - R550.00
B&W NC - A4 (detailed) R750.00 - R1500.00
B&W NC - A4 double page (simple) R1000.00 - R1500.00
B&W NC - A4 double page (detailed) R1750.00 - R2500.00
Full Colour Narrow Crown - A4 (simple) R550.00 - R750.00
F/C NC - A4 (detailed) R1000.00 - R2000.00
F/C NC - A4 double page (simple) R1000.00 - R2500.00
F/C NC - A4 double page (detailed) R1750.00 - R2800.00
Cover Artwork per piece
Learners book/Reader NC - A4 (simple) R1500.00
LB/Reader NC - A4 (complex) R1750.00 - R 2750.00
Cover designed in Photoshop (no scanning cost) R2500.00 - 3 000.00
Studio photograph for Cover including fees and props (per photo) R1950.00 - R 2500.00
Cover design
Design requires no adjustment to artwork R1565.00
Design requires some adjustment to artwork R1816.00
Artwork on front cover only (complex design work) R2300.00
Artwork on front and back cover (complex design work) R2550.00
Makeup from existing design R900.00
Makeup from existing design with new image R1250.00
Teachers guide converted from Learners book R1200.00
New design with artwork R2000.00
Design for new series per title R2750.00
Complex design using artwork and photographs R2900.00
Book design and layout
Concept design R2550.00
cover design R2550.00
Layout per page (simple � run in text through to school science and maths ) R50.00 - 90.00
Layout per page (complex with design work) R220.00 - 260.00
Magazine design and layout
cover design R2500
Layout per pageR230
Web design
Concept design R3500 - R5500
Layout of pages this is easier quoted as an hourly rateR250 - R300 per hour
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Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Retreat
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SCBWI SA
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Retreat
Goudini Spa
May 5-9, 2008
All children’s book writers, illustrators, publishers, librarians, teachers (not only members of the SCBWI)…
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We are lucky to have enticed the chief editor from a children’s magazine and two established international children’s book agents to participate in our retreat: Christine Clark from the Highlights Magazine,
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Resources for Writers in SA compiled by Colleen Higgs
Colleen Higgs left the Centre for the Book at the end of February 2008. She developed a Resource list over her years working there and shared this with the e-group. Thank you Colleen and best wishes in your new position at Modjaji Books.
RESOURCES FOR WRITERS IN SA compiled by Colleen Higgs
WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE FOR WRITERS IN SOUTH AFRICA?
*Competitions for writers to enter (Books e-group)
*Writing workshops, writing teachers (Books e-group, Centre for the Book website)
*Literary magazines (Rough guide, Centre for the Book website)
*Online zines (
www.litnet.co.za and http://book.co.za)
*National Arts Council grants to give you time to write
*Join organisations that support you - IBBYSA, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Bhala - national organisation for those who write in isiXhosa, most towns and cities in regions that have large groups of Xhosa speakers have local groups of Bhala
*Join the Books e-group books@nlsa.ac.za (You will receive up-to-the-minute information about workshops, events, conferences, competitions, opportunities for publications, readings, writers groups, etc)
*Go to bookish conferences, symposia, festivals (Books e-group)
*If you are on Facebook or MySpace on the Internet - check out the writers’ groups and bookish events that are happening in your area
*Get onto the mailing lists of bookstores - like Exclusive Books, Wordsworths, The Book Lounge (CT), Die Boekehuis (Jhb)
HOW DO I KNOW IF MY WRITING IS ANY GOOD?
*Send it off to literary magazines, both online and print. See the list at the back of the Rough guide to small-scale and self publishing or on the Writers Network website. If your writing is rejected this is feedback of a sort. Don’t give up.
*Join a writing group or start a writing group. (CfB pamphlet on this topic).
*Come to Out to Lunch at the Centre for the Book on Wednesdays between 1 and 2. (CT) *Do the Masters in Creative Writing at UCT or at Wits. Other universities around the country also offer creative writing - check out their websites to see what they have to offer.
*Join a Writing workshop. There are some excellent writing teachers around, check out the Centre for the Book website for a list of writing teachers. One of the best in Cape Town is Anne Schuster. See her website at
www.anneschuster.co.za*You could send a completed manuscript off to a publisher. Before you do this, though, you need to research the market.
*Go to bookshops and look carefully at which local publishers are publishing books in a similar genre to yours. Make a shortlist of three or four publishers, including some small publishers. Before you submit a manuscript, go to each publisher’s website and find out what their submission requirements are. Normally publishers do not want to see a whole manuscript, but rather want a package of:
(1) A one paragraph synopsis of the book
(2) A one paragraph bio-note about author
(3) A one to two page synopsis of your book
(4) A chapter by chapter synopsis (3-5 line per chapter)
(5) Two sample chapters.
*You could get your manuscript read by an "expert" reader for a small fee at
www.livewriting.co.za(available after April 2008) or email mairefisher@gmail.com
HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY WRITING?
*Information pamphlet series for writers published by the Centre for the Book - ten pamphlets are available on topics of interest to writers written by experienced writers, publishers, and editors.
*Find a writers’ course or workshop that you can attend
*Register for a creative writing course at university. The SA Writers’ College is an online writing college based in Cape Town; you don’t have to live in the city to do a course.
*You could get your manuscript read by an "expert" reader for a small fee at
www.livewriting.co.za(available after April 2008) or by emailing mairefisher@gmail.com
*Send stories, poems, articles, essays etc to literary magazines and popular magazines where relevant.
*Go to a local book store or library and find books that give advice and suggestions about how to write better
*Read widely and frequently - you have to be an avid reader if you want to be a good writer.
If I have a book that I want to publish, what should I do?
If you want a commercial publisher to consider your work*
*Look at the PASA Directory, it is updated each year or check out the PASA website at
www.publishsa.co.za*You need to identify which publishers do the kind of book you are wanting to get published.
*Basil van Rooyen’s book - How to get published in SA (Penguin) is useful, especially for non-fiction authors - but it is quite gloomy, so don’t get discouraged by the tone.
*You should also go to bookstores and see who is publishing similar books and see what is being published so they don’t reinvent the wheel
*A new website offers reader’s reports for a small fee and some at a reduced fee (bursaries). Check out
www.livewriting.co.za(available after April 2008) or contact Maire Fisher at mairefisher@gmail.com
*Poets should read the attached page about getting your poetry published. You shouldn’t think of starting with getting a book published. Get individual poems published first.
*Look at the CfB pamphlet on Publishing Opportunities for new writers
YOU COULD CONSIDER SELF OR INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING Sometimes you can’t get published straight away, because you are a new writer, or you write in a genre that has limited appeal --- have you considered independent publishing or self-publishing?
*Let’s push the boundaries of publishing - pamphlets, chapbooks, simple cheap books, digital printing, zines, reading to each other
*Get a copy of A Rough Guide to small-scale and self publishing published by the Centre for the Book - it is full of practical and useful advice. Available in English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
*Community Publishing Project grants, small grants for writers to publish their own work are on offer twice a year: deadlines: Usually in about March & September (Check the CB website for deadlines and to download the application form)
*Gary Cummiskey’s Blog --- he is a veteran independent publisher
http://dyehard-press.blogspot.com/*Consider a small print run and going the digital printing/ print on demand option
RESEARCH SA BOOKS AND PUBLISHING
*Go to a bookshop or a library and look at who is publishing what and whom? If you join the Exclusive Books fanatics club and the Wordsworth’s Loyalty Club, not only will you get discounts, you will be invited to launches of books, where you will hear successful writers speak, read and launch their books. There is a whole collection of wonderful bookshops in Long Street, the most famous and worth a visit is Clarke’s.
*The Book Lounge corner of Buitenkant and Roeland Streets in Cape Town city - has regular events and Kalk Bay Books in Main Road, Kalk Bay does too
*Baobab Books in Long Street has regular literary events on Wednesday evenings.
*Boekehuis in Auckland Park in Jozi - has a great selection of Africana and has regular bookish events
*Xarra Books in Newtown is a wonderful Jozi bookstore
*Read the books pages of newspapers and magazines - good ones are Rapport, Die Burger, Cape Times, The Weekender, The Mail and Guardian and the Sunday Independent, O Magazine, Real Simple - but there are lots of others!
*Check out the Publishers’ Association website
www.publishsa.co.zaor buy a copy of the annual PASA directory, which gives a breakdown of all publishers in South Africa who are members of PASA, what their publishing interests are, and contact details.
*Most publishers have their own websites and often tell you how they like to receive submissions. If they don’t tell you, give them a ring and ask.
*Listen to SAFM Literature on Sundays 1- 4pm , and keep an ear out for what is happening on "Otherwise" on SAFM at 1pm, they often have slots of interest to writers.
HANG OUT WITH/ MEET AND/OR LISTEN TO PUBLISHED WRITERS AT VARIOUS EVENTS AND FESTIVALS AROUND THE COUNTRY
*For Afrikaans speaking writers - Woordfees at Stellenbosch in March is a must
*The Cape Town International Book Fair in June each year - what more can I say?
*The Franschoek Literary Festival in May is a feast of literary activity
*Spier Poetry Exchange at the end of January, early February each year - a chance to see local and international poets in action
*Poetry Africa is held at the University of KZN in Durban in October each year -a fantastic opportunity to listen to local and international poets reading and performing their work
*Time of the Writers is held at UKZN in March each year
*Wordfest is the bookish/ writerly part of the Grahamstown Arts Festival at the end of June/July each year
WHAT IS AVAILABLE FOR CHILDREN'S WRITERS AND PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATORS?
*Join Society for Book Writers and Illustrators --- SCBWI SCBWI.ZA@gmail.com
*Join IBBYSA, for more information check out their website ---
www.ibbysa.org.za*Join the Children’s Literature Network (CLN) e-group - cln@nlsa.ac.za
*Find courses and workshops for the writers of children’s books - SCBWI and IBBY SA often advertise such course
*Read lots of children’s books - to yourself and to children
*Tell stories to children - either your own or volunteer at a school or library
*Go to the Children’s Zone at the Cape Town International Book Fair
*Some cities and towns have specialist children’s bookstores - eg A is for Apple in Cape Town. Most decent bookstores have a children’s section and some are better than others. Look out for books that have won prizes or other recognition.
WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE FOR WRITERS IN CAPE TOWN?
(other regions should figure this out and find a place to share this information)
*Out to Lunch at the Centre for the Book on Wednesday’s between 1 and 2, there is a free open writing practice session.
*Watch out for the Cape Town International Bookfair in 2008. (www.capetownbookfair.com)
*Off the Wall at A Touch of Madness in Observatory has poetry sessions on Monday nights. Usually there is a guest poet, and then an open mic. Contact: Hugh Hodge hahodge@gmail.com
*Gus Ferguson’s mailing list, you can subscribe to Carapace & get onto it that way (Invitations to launches, readings and other events) email: snail@pulsar.co.za
*The Central Library has a monthly poetry group that meets on Saturday afternoons.
*Keith Gottschalk convenes a writers group called the Landsdowne Local which meets last Saturday of the month, contact kgottschalk@uwc.ac.za
NOTES ON PUBLISHING YOUR POETRY
(by Robert Berold)
It is almost impossible to get a first book published. The route to go is to try to publish your work bit by bit in poetry magazines (see the Centre for the Book website). You will be able to find copies of these magazines in a large library, like a university library. Read them first to see which magazines suit your style of poetry. Reading these magazines will also give you an idea of what is going on in South African poetry in general, which is a very diverse field.
Publishing through small magazines is a slow process, but that is the way all poets do it. Some editors give criticism and feedback, others don’t.
Do not send the same poems to more than one magazine, and do not send more than 3 to 5, it just irritates the editor to be flooded. You sometimes have to wait a long time for a reply, up to 6 months or more.
After that time it is fair to write and ask the editor to make a decision so that you can send those particular poems somewhere else.
The slowness of this process is no reason to stop writing poetry, or sharing it with others, starting a poetry reading group, or even publishing a small book of your own.
READ, READ, READ
*As well as whatever else you read, you must also read what other South African writers have written and are writing. You need to know where you fit into the ongoing conversation that is South African literature, South African writing.
*Buy South African books and subscribe to our local literary magazines. For a list see the Centre for the Book website and the Rough guide to small scale & self publishing
*Read South African and African books from the library closest to you. South African writing and publishing is flourishing --- and there are some wonderful reads.
*You may find books about writing useful too. See a selected bibliography at the end of handout.
USEFUL WEBSITES
www.publishsa.co.za (Publishers Association of SA) www.nac.org.za (National Arts Council) www.litnet.co.za (Litnet - online magazine about arts and culture - strong Afrikaans focus) http://book.co.zaBook SA -- Southern Africa Lit Daily - mostly in English
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON WRITING Natalie Goldberg’s books (1986) Writing Down the Bones Boston &
London: Shambhala and (1990) Wild Mind" New York: Bantam Books
Anne Lamott (1994) Bird by bird - Some instructions on writing and life. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday.
Dorothea Brande (1934 first published, republished 1996) Becoming a writer. London: Macmillan.
Julia Cameron (2000) The Right to Write. London: Macmillan
Peter Elbow (1973) Writing without teachers. New York: Oxford University Press.
Judy Reeves (1999) A Writer’s Book of Days - A spirited companion and lively muse for the writing life. Novato, California: New World Library.
Stephen King (2000) On Writing: a memoir London: Hodder & Stoughton
Anne Schuster’s novel (2006) Foolish Delusions - has separate mini-sections which are helpful in writing memoir/ autobiography. Johannesburg: Jacana Media
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IBBY SA's Representative South African Books for Children and Young People
Thanks to IBBY SA for permission to publish this list.
100 Representative South African Books for Children and Young People
In drawing up this list, we have been mindful of the following:
• The books are recognisably African in character.
• The authors and illustrators are South Africans, or non-South Africans living and working in South Africa.
• The books are in print.
• The books are mentioned in the list in the language in which they were originally written. Many titles have been translated into other South African languages.
• The books are intended for children and young people: we have not included titles that are geared to an adult market, even if popular among younger readers.
Of course, there are many more South African titles of distinction in the area of books for children and young people. It is our hope that these 100 will be seen as representing the excellent work being done by writers and illustrators and translators and publishers in all South African languages. The list drawn up in 2004 for the IBBY World Congress remains as a historical list, and we acknowledge those books that have made way for newer publications.
We acknowledge the assistance of members of the IBBY SA Exec and invited colleagues in drawing up the list, and the generous support of the publishers in supplying copies for the two exhibitions mentioned below.
The books in the list were exhibited for the first time at the IBBY SA stand at the Cape Town Book Fair, 16–19 June 2007, and at the Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival in South Korea, June 2007.
The 100 Books List will in due course become a virtual exhibition on our website www.ibbysa.org.za . The physical exhibition will be housed at the headquarters of Biblionef SA in Huis der Nederlanden 4 Central Square Pinelands Cape Town.
We hope you enjoy browsing through and consulting the 100 Books List. Your comments are invited, and can be emailed to booksforafrica@iafrica.com .
100 Verteenwoordigende Suid-Afrikaanse Boeke vir Kinders en Jongmense
Die lys is saamgestel met die volgende in gedagte:
• Die boeke het ʼn duidelike Afrika-karakter.
• Die skrywers en illustreerders is Suid-Afrikaans of woon en werk in Suid-Afrika.
• Die boeke is tans in druk.
• Die boeke word weergegee in die taal waarin dit oorspronklik geskryf is. Baie titels is vertaal in ander Suid-Afrikaanse tale.
• Die boeke is bedoel vir kinders en jongmense. Boeke vir volwassenes wat gewild is onder jonger lesers, is nie in aanmerking geneem nie.
Daar is natuurlik baie ander goeie Suid-Afrikaanse boeke vir kinders en jongmense. Daarom hoop ons dat hierdie 100 boeke as verteenwoordigend gesien sal word en as voorbeelde sal dien vir die uitmuntende werk deur skrywers, illustreerders, vertalers en uitgewers in alle Suid-Afrikaanse tale. IBBY SA gee ook erkenning aan dié boeke wat op die 2004 lys as deel van die IBBY Wêreldkongres verskyn het, maar wat nou deur nuwer titels vervang is.
Ons bedank lede van IBBY SA se uitvoerende bestuur en ander genooide kollegas vir die saamstel van die lys. Ons bedank ook die uitgewers wat kopieë van die boeke vir die uitstallings verskaf het.
Die boeke op die lys is vir die eerste keer ten toon gestel tydens die Kaapstadse Boekfees, 16–19 Junie 2007 en tydens die Nami-eiland Internasionale Boekfees in Suid-Korea in Junie 2007.
Die 100 boeke sal as ʼn virtuele uitstalling op ons webwerf www.ibbysa.org.za vertoon word, terwyl die fisiese uitstalling by die hoofkwartiere van Biblionef SA gehuisves sal word (Huis der Nederlanden, Central Square 4, Pinelands, Kaapstad).
Ons hoop dat julle dit sal geniet om deur die 100 boeke te snuffel en die lys van 100 boeke te raadpleeg. Enige kommentaar kan gestuur word na booksforafrica@iafrica.com .
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Siyayivuma inkxaso esiyifumene kumalungu alawulayo e-IBBY SA nesiyifumene kubantu esisebenzisana nabo ngelixa sisenza uluhlu lwezi ncwadi, kunye nenkxaso enesisa esiyifumene kubapapashi beencwadi ngokusixuma ngeekopi zeencwadi eziza kube ziboniswa kwimiboniso yeencwadi echazwe ezantsi apha.
Iincwadi ezi kolu luhlu zaboniswa okokuqala yi-IBBY SA kuMboniso woNcwadi obubanjelwe eKapa ngomhla we-16–19 kuJune 2007, nakuMbhiyozo woNcwadi lwaBantwana kazwelonke obubanjelwe eNami Island, eMzantsi Korea ngoJune ka2007.
Uluhlu lweencwadi ezi-100 luza kupapashwa kungekudala kwiwebhusayithi yethu i- www.ibbysa.org.za. Umntu angaya kuzibonela ngokwakhe kundlunkulu weBiblionef SA eHuis der Nederlanden, 4 Central Square, Pinelands, Cape Town.
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100 Representative South African Books
for Children and Young People 2007
Arranged alphabetically by author:
1. Lesley Beake:
The Strollers
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1987)
2. Lesley Beake:
Song of Be
(Maskew Miller Longman Cape Town, 1991)
3. Maryanne Bester, illustrated by Shayle Bester:
Three Friends and a Taxi
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2007)
4. Maryanne Bester, illustrated by Shayle Bester:
Cool Nguni
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2007)
5. Francois Bloemhof:
Die dae toe ek Elvis was
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 2000, 2005)
6. Carole Bloch, Boyce Boulix Mgcina, Rafeekah Patel, Juliana Seleti, Ethel Sithole, Robert Hichens:
Remembering Mommy
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2006)
7. Helen Brain:
Fly Cemetery and other juicy stories
(Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 1999)
8. Elana Bregin:
The Red-haired Khumalo
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1994)
9. Tania Brink:
Liefde laat jou Rice Krispies anders proe
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2002, 2006)
10. Darrel Bristow-Bovey:
SuperZero
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2006)
11. Dianne Case:
92 Queens Road
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1991)
12. Dianne Case:
Love, David
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1986)
13. Sekgaila J Chokoe:
Ke Bophelo
(Heinemann, Johannesburg, 1995)
14. Jude Daly:
To Every Thing There Is a Season
(Frances Lincoln, London, 2006)
15. Niki Daly:
Ruby Sings the Blues
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2006)
16. Niki Daly:
Not So Fast, Songololo
(Frances Lincoln, London, 2002; distributed in South Africa by Pan Macmillan, Johannesburg)
17. Niki Daly:
Where’s Jamela?
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, Frances Lincoln, London 2004)
18. Niki Daly:
Zanzibar Road
(Giraffe Books Pan Macmillan, Johannesburg, 2006)
19. Mogamat I Davids:
111 Colleen Court
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2005)
20. Mogamat I Davids:
Sedick’s Kalk Bay Stories
(Juta Gariep, Cape Town,2002)
21. Leon de Villiers:
Die Pro
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1997)
22. Leon de Villiers, met illustrasies deur Emily Bornhoff:
Maroelaboomstories
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2005)
23. Leon de Villiers, met illustrasies deur Berco Wilsenach:
Droomoog Diepgrawer
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2003)
24. Philip de Vos, met illustrasies deur Piet Grobler:
Moenie ’n mielie kielie nie
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 1995)
25. Philip de Vos, met illustrasies deur Cora Coetzee:
Vincent van Gogga
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 1990, 2006)
26. Johann de Waal:
Sit! Oom Paul
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 1995, 2005)
27. Carina Diedericks-Hugo:
Koning Henry
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2003)
28. Carina Diedericks-Hugo, met illustrasies deur Séan Verster:
Operasie M.I.A.A.U.
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 2005)
29. K Sello Duiker:
The Hidden Star
(Umuzi, Cape Town, 2006)
30. Hans du Plessis:
Ditsem, Dawid!
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 1996)
31. Linzi Glass:
The Year the Gypsies Came
(Penguin, Oxford, 2006)
32. Christopher Gregorowski, illustrated by Niki Daly:
Fly, Eagle, Fly!
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2000)
33. Wendy Hartmann, illustrated by Niki Daly:
All the Magic in the World
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 1993, 2002)
34. Maria Hendriks, met illustrasies deur Piet Grobler:
Makwelane en die krokodil
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 2004)
35. Dianne Hofmeyr, illustrated by Jude Daly:
The Star-Bearer: an Egyptian creation myth
(Frances Lincoln, London; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1997)
36. Barrie Hough:
My kat word herfs
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1986)
37. Barrie Hough:
Skilpoppe
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1998)
38. Barrie Hough:
Vlerkdans
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1992)
39. Barrie Hough:
Droomwa
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1990)
40. Jaco Jacobs:
Tande
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2002)
41. Jaco Jacobs, met illustrasies deur Frans Groenewald:
Superheroes vlieg net saans
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2003)
42. Jaco Jacobs:
Wurms met tamatiesous en ander lawwe rympies
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2005)
43. Mhlobo Jadezweni, illustrated by Hannah Morris:
UTshepo mde / Tall Enough
(Vuvu Books Electric Book Works, Cape Town, 2006)
44. Russell H Kaschula:
Emthonjeni
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2006)
Also in the author’s own English version as
Take Me to the River
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2006)
45. Russell H Kaschula:
Phesheya kweTsitsa
(Nasou Via Afrika, Cape Town, 1998)
Also in the author’s own English version as
The Tsitsa River and Beyond
(Collegium, Pretoria, 1998)
46. Janet Keegans, illustrated by Jacqui Taylor:
Kubuka and the Magic Calabash
(Struik, Cape Town, 2004)
47. Kabelo Kgatea:
Ntshware ka letsogo
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2005)
48. Kabelo Kgatea:
Leba seipone
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2002)
49. Dorothy Kowen, illustrated by Gillian Mathew:
Nyama and the Eland
(Kwagga, Cape Town, 2003)
50. Anzil Kulsen:
Zita
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2006)
51. Wendy Maartens, met illustrasies deur Anna-Carien Goosen:
Lena se bottelboom
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2005)
52. Robin Malan:
The Sound of New Wings
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1998)
53. Robin Malan:
The Story of Lucky Simelane
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2005)
54. Mphuhle Annah Mehlape, diswantsho di ke Itumeleng Sibambo:
Mogopo wa Rakgadi
(MA Mehlape, Polokwane, 2006)
55. Ingrid Mennen, illustrated by Niki Daly:
One Round Moon and a Star for Me
(Orchard Books, New York, 1994; The Bodley Head Children’s Books, London, 1994; Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2003, 2007)
56. Gcina Mhlophe:
Stories of Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Petermaritzburg, 2003)
57. Gcina Mhlophe, illustrated by Elizabeth Pulles:
Molo, Zoleka!
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 1994)
Also available in English as
Hi, Zoleka!
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 1994)
58. Kagiso Lesego Molope:
Dancing in the Dust
(Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, 2004)
59. Kagiso Lesego Molope:
The Mending Season
(Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, 2005)
60. Jackie Nagtegaal:
Daar’s vis in die punch
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2002)
61. Beverley Naidoo:
The Other Side of Truth
(Heinemann, Oxford; Puffin Penguin, Oxford, 2000)
62. Beverley Naidoo:
Journey to Jo’burg
(Collins, London, 1987; Collins Modern Classics, London, 1999; Longman, Harlow, 1985, 1995)
63. CSZ Ntuli & DBZ Ntuli:
Amawisa
(Shuter & Shooter, Pietermaritzburg, 1982)
64. Sibusiso Nyembezi:
Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu
(Shuter & Shooter, Pietermaritzburg, 1999)
65. Zulfah Otto-Sallies:
Diekie van die Bo-Kaap
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1997)
66. Martie Preller:
Die hart van Zeebak
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2004)
67. Martie Preller:
In die tyd van die Esob
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1996)
68. Martie Preller, met illustrasies deur Erica en Andries Maritz:
Babalela
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2000, 2005)
69. Martie Preller, met illustrasies deur Erica en Andries Maritz:
Diep, diep in ’n donker bos
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2004)
70. Martie Preller, met illustrasies deur Vian Oelofsen:
Ek is Simon
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2003)
71. Joan Rankin:
What Sam Said
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2004, 2006)
72. Joan Rankin:
Wow! It’s Great Being a Duck
(The Bodley Head Children’s Books, London, 1997; Margaret K McElderry Books, New York, 1998; Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2005)
73. Jenny Robson:
Praise Song
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2006)
74. Jenny Robson:
Because Pula Means Rain
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2000)
75. Reviva Schermbrucker, illustrated by Niki Daly:
Charlie’s House
(New Africa Books,, Cape Town 1989)
76. Reviva Schermbrucker:
An African Christmas Cloth
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2005)
77. Reviva Schermbrucker:
The Jam Tin and the Teacup
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2002)
78. Reviva Schermbrucker:
Lucky Fish!
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2003)
79. Patricia Schonstein Pinnock:
Skyline
(African Sun Press, Cape Town, 2007; previously David Philip New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2000)
80. Dumisani Sibiya:
Ngidedele ngife
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2005)
81. Dumisani Sibiya:
Kungasa ngifile
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2002)
82. Nakanjani G Sibiya:
Kuxolelwa abanjani?
(Shuter & Shooter, Pietermaritzburg, 2004)
83. Kholeka V Sigenu, illustrated by Siphiwe Ratsibe:
Ezakowethu
(Khol Publishers, Queenstown, 2002)
Also in the author’s own version in English,
Ezakowethu - Folk Tales from Home
84. Maritha Snyman, met illustrasies deur Karen Lilje:
’n Annerste ABC-boek vir aspatatte
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2002, 2004)
85. Dianne Stewart, illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden:
Folktales from Africa
(Struik, Cape Town, 2006)
86. Dianne Stewart, illustrated by Jude Daly:
The Dove
(Songololo Books New Africa Books, Cape Town, 1994, 2007)
87. Marita van der Vyver:
Eenkantkind
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1991)
88. Marita van der Vyver:
Ongelooflike avonture van Hanna Hoekom
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2002)
89. Marita van der Vyver, met illustrasies deur Piet Grobler:
Mia se ma
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 2005)
90. Dux van der Walt, illustrated by Annelise Voigt:
The Red Dress
(Garamond, Cape Town, 1997)
91. Willem van der Walt:
The Lost Boys
(Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, 1998)
92. Chris van Wyk:
Ouma Ruby’s Secret
(Giraffe Books Pan Macmillan, Johannesburg, 2006)
93. Fanie Viljoen:
Breinbliksem
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2005)
94. Anoeschka von Meck:
Vaselinetjie
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 2004)
95. Ann Walton, illustrated by Natalie Hinrichsen:
Tell the Moon
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2006)
96. Ann Walton, illustrated by Natalie Hinrichsen:
A Very Nice Day
(Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2006)
97. George Weideman:
Dana se jaar duisend
(Tafelberg, Kaapstad, 1998)
98. Michael Williams:
Eighth Man
(Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, 2002, 2004)
99. Peter Younghusband:
Timbavati Patrol
(Capricorn Publishers, Cape Town, 2006)
100. Zanemvula S Zotwana:
Amanzithinzithi kaMzingisi
(Biblionef SA & Garamond, Cape Town, 1995)
Series
1. Carina Diedericks-Hugo:
Thomas@---.net-reeks
(LAPA, Pretoria, 2001–)
bv. Thomas@-sms.net, Thomas@moord.net en ander titels in die reeks
2. Exploring Our Provinces
(Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2006)
9 books in the series, or box set
3. Mamela Afrika series
(Heinemann SA, Johannesburg, 1999–)
e.g. J J Ncongwane: Loyishayile Sewuyosile
4. New African Stories
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2002–),
e.g. Nompumelelo Zama, illustrated by Elton Leeman:
Laduma!
Carole Bloch, illustrated by Meg Jordi:
Vuyo’s Day
25 titles in the series, in various South African languages
5. Siyagruva Series of novels for SA teens
(New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2002–)
e.g. Rusleen Malbusch:
Boy in da City, Duane Jethro:
Weekend Away
Nokuthula Mazibuko:
A Mozambican Summer,
20 titles in the series, 3 titles translated into isiXhosa
6. Stars of Africa series
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town)
e.g. Lesley Beake, illustrated by Vanessa Rowley:
Free to Be Me
Honoré Muneza & Rosamund Haden, illustrated by Sarah Pratt:
My Name Is Honoré
Approx 190 titles in the series
7. They Fought for Freedom series
(Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town),
e.g. Linda Price: Steve Biko, Gys Dubbeld: Seretse Khama, 16 titles in the series
8. Threads series
(Nation Rising Publishing, Room to Read, Pretoria, 2007)
e.g. Sarah Oosthuizen: uNosipho uzokuhlala oko and Nosipho a tla go dula, in various South African languages
9. Chris van Wyk:
Freedom Fighters series
(Awareness Publishing, Gallo Manor)
Series 1 and Series 2 (20 titles in all)
10. Verna Vels, met illustrasies deur Piet Grobler:
Liewe Heksie-reeks
(Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad, 1999–) bv. Liewe Heksie en die rekenaar, Liewe Heksie Omnibus en ander titels in die reeks
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We serve as an umbrella body to bring together everyone involved in any way with books and young people: readers, writers, illustrators, translators, editors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, teachers, parents, care-givers and book enthusiasts of all sorts.
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IBBY SA Honour List
IBBY SA has announced that the following books have been selected as IBBY SA’s Honour List to be presented at the IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen in 2008 as having made a significant contribution to recent South African literature for children and young people:
Author: Afrikaans
Jaco Jacobs: Suurlemoen (LAPA Uit-gewers, Pretoria, 2006)
Jaco Jacobs het hier daarin geslaag om op oortuigende wyse ’n regte, egte tiener-verhaal te vertel. Die sestienjarige Tiaan Fourie, saam met sy ‘partner in crime’, die baskitaarspeler en moeillkheidmaker Zane le Roux, word aangemoedig om hulle band vir die Rumoer-kompetisie in te skryf deur die musiekonderwyser. Hulle kry uiteindelik toe ’n vocalist en ’n drummer. Jaco Jacobs het ’n lewendige, vermaaklike en genuine jeugverhaal geskep met genoeg opwinding en humor en ’n sterk spanningselement om jong lesers te vermaak. Die karakters is werklik tieners; die styl lig, gemaklik en onderhoudend. Jaco Jacobs word geluk gewens met ’n oortuigende leesbare en toeganklike jeugverhaal.
Author: isiXhosa
Mhlobo Jadezweni: UTshepo mde / Tall enough (Electric Book Works, Cape Town, 2006)
Tshepo is a boy who wishes he was as tall as a beautiful tree. He plants himself in the ground, waters himself, and magically grows into one. But, as a tree, he soon comes to realise why it’s good to be a little boy, at least for now. Told in isiXhosa, and accompanied by an English translation, this book is about the worries of growing up and belonging. The story is funny, poignant and surprising, and fuses the mythical and the domestic in a quintessentially African fairytale. (from the publisher’s information sheet)
Author: English
K Sello Duiker: The Hidden Star (Umuzi Books Random House, Cape Town, 2006) (posthumously)
K Sello Duiker’s last novel, edited after his death by publisher Annari van der Merwe as a tribute to her friend and author, is something of a milestone for South African literature for young people. Eleven-year-old Nolitye takes upon herself the quest to bring together again the separated pieces of a magic stone that will both reveal and heal. So, yes, this is a fantasy story every bit as much as any in the great classic tradition, but the achievement lies in this fantasy being embedded in a uniquely South African reality: every taste, sound, sight and smell in the novel smacks of South Africa, and, specifically, of Phola township in Gauteng. Its authenticity is unassailable. We are the poorer for the loss of a talent such as Sello’s; but South African literature for young people is undeniably the richer for the survival of The Hidden Star.
Translator:
Russell H Kaschula: Emthonjeni trans-lated into isiXhosa from his own English Take Me to the River (New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2006)
Professor Kaschula has earned the respect of isiXhosa-speakers in the academic world; and he now adds to the small but growing body of stories in isiXhosa for young teenagers. Chance and the recent history of South Africa make the young black boy Zama and the young coloured boy Pieter next-door neighbours. But they make their friendship themselves. And it is the kind of friendship that proves it can withstand a number of severe tests and challenges. The author is unafraid of tackling social issues that are potentially controversial – and even divisive. He skilfully harnesses them to serve his theme of individual human bonds bringing and keeping people together.
Illustrator:
Anneliese Voigt-Peters: Ouma Ruby’s Secret by Chris van Wyk (Giraffe Books Pan Macmillan,Johannesburg, 2006)
This story is taken from Chris van Wyk’s memoir about growing up in Riverlea in Johannesburg, Shirley, Goodness and Mercy. He has rewritten, for a young audience, a story about his beloved grandmother Ruby. One day he meets his Ouma in town and she buys him two books. For her birthday two weeks later, he writes a letter which he wants her to read out. She makes the excuse that she does not have her glasses with her. His mother takes him aside and quietly tells him that Ouma Ruby cannot read. This gentle, very real story is sensitively illustrated in fine watercolours by Anneliese Voigt-Peters. Her images capture the essence of the neighbourhood and houses and the extended family inhabiting the boy’s world. A book to be treasured as a fine example of how an illustrator who knows her material and the environment in which the story takes place can produce illustrations typically South African in a quiet reassuring manner. She is highly applauded for this little gem of a book.
Taken from Lona Gericke's article in the IBBY SA Newsletter No 45, October 2007.
Nominations wanted for the Katrine Harries Award
Nominations awaited for the Katrine Harries Award for Children's Book Illustrations
The Katrine Harries Award, originally the only and most prestigious award in South Africa for children's book illustrations, but which has been dormant for the past ten years, will again be awarded from this year. Protea Boekhuis has agreed to sponsor the award on a permanent basis. This year the award will be made for books published during 2006-2007.
Since 1999 the Children's Literature Research Unit (CLRU) of Unisa, who is responsible for the Award, has tried without success to secure award sponsors for the books published during this period (1999-2005). Lapa Publishers has now agreed to sponsor one award (2004-2006). The CLRU hopes to find two additional sponsors so that four awards can be made. This promises to be a special occasion, having three or four of South Africa's best illustrators together on the podium.
As was traditionally the case, the Award will be made biennially for children's book illustrations by a South African illustrator. It includes books by South African illustrators resident in South Africa or abroad, irrespective of where their books have been published.
Publishers, illustrators and all interested parties are herewith invited to nominate books with illustrations made by a South African illustrator published in the period:
2006-2007
2004-2005
2002-2003
1999-2001
Please send your nominations asap to:
Thomas van der Walt
CLRU, Dept of Information Science, PO Box 382, 0003 UNISA vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za
The Katrine Harries Award was awarded for the first time in the early 1960's by the SA Library Association, later the South African Institute for Library and Information Science (SAILIS).It has been awarded to some of South Africa's most well-known illustrators: Katrine Harries personally received the award twice before it was named after her. Thereafter Niki Daly, Joan Rankin, Alida Bothma, Cora Coetzee, Jeremy Grimsdell (and others) have received it with Jude Daly finally receiving it in 1997 for Gift of the Sun. With the disbandment of SAILIS, the new library organisation, LIASA, was not interested in continuing with awards. The SAILIS Board requested the Children's Literature Research Unit to find new homes for the SAILIS awards. The CLRU did not succeed in finding a home for the award with the exception of 1997-98 when the magazine, Baba en Kleuter, sponsored the award - Jude Daly won it for The Stone.
The awards, 9-carat gold medals, will be made at a gala-evening in March
2008 during the University of Pretoria Book Festival.
The Katrine Harries Award, originally the only and most prestigious award in South Africa for children's book illustrations, but which has been dormant for the past ten years, will again be awarded from this year. Protea Boekhuis has agreed to sponsor the award on a permanent basis. This year the award will be made for books published during 2006-2007.
Since 1999 the Children's Literature Research Unit (CLRU) of Unisa, who is responsible for the Award, has tried without success to secure award sponsors for the books published during this period (1999-2005). Lapa Publishers has now agreed to sponsor one award (2004-2006). The CLRU hopes to find two additional sponsors so that four awards can be made. This promises to be a special occasion, having three or four of South Africa's best illustrators together on the podium.
As was traditionally the case, the Award will be made biennially for children's book illustrations by a South African illustrator. It includes books by South African illustrators resident in South Africa or abroad, irrespective of where their books have been published.
Publishers, illustrators and all interested parties are herewith invited to nominate books with illustrations made by a South African illustrator published in the period:
2006-2007
2004-2005
2002-2003
1999-2001
Please send your nominations asap to:
Thomas van der Walt
CLRU, Dept of Information Science, PO Box 382, 0003 UNISA vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za
The Katrine Harries Award was awarded for the first time in the early 1960's by the SA Library Association, later the South African Institute for Library and Information Science (SAILIS).It has been awarded to some of South Africa's most well-known illustrators: Katrine Harries personally received the award twice before it was named after her. Thereafter Niki Daly, Joan Rankin, Alida Bothma, Cora Coetzee, Jeremy Grimsdell (and others) have received it with Jude Daly finally receiving it in 1997 for Gift of the Sun. With the disbandment of SAILIS, the new library organisation, LIASA, was not interested in continuing with awards. The SAILIS Board requested the Children's Literature Research Unit to find new homes for the SAILIS awards. The CLRU did not succeed in finding a home for the award with the exception of 1997-98 when the magazine, Baba en Kleuter, sponsored the award - Jude Daly won it for The Stone.
The awards, 9-carat gold medals, will be made at a gala-evening in March
2008 during the University of Pretoria Book Festival.