Jude Daly

Jude Daly was born in London and emigrated to South Africa as a young child. She went to art college in Cape Town, and now lives there with her husband, the writer and illustrator Niki Daly, and their two sons. The Gift of the Sun, written by Dianne Stewart, was chosen as one of Child Education's Best Books of 1996 and The Elephant's Pillow, written by Diana Reynolds Roome, was awarded a U.S. Parents' Choice Silver Honour. Jude's other books for Frances Lincoln are The Little Blue Slipper, The Dove, The Stone, The Star Bearer, To Every Thing There is a Season, The Faraway Island, Let There be Peace and Lila and the Secret of Rain.

The Dove

The poignant story of Lindi and her loving grandmother, trying to earn a living after their valley is flooded.

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £5.99
The Elephant's Pillow

A Chinese tale that will intrigue any child with a special bedtime ritual.

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £5.99
The Faraway Island

Based on the legend of St. Helena, this book is about a sailor who jumps ship and is washed ashore on a deserted island, where he cultivates plants and animals until he has created a bountiful paradise worthy of the Queen of Portugal.

Category: Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Hardback    £11.99
The Gift of the Sun

Award-winning story about life on a remote homestead in South Africa.

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £5.99
Lila and the Secret of Rain

Lila's Kenyan village is suffering a terrible drought, until she saves the day by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows...

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £6.99
The Little Blue Slipper

Retelling of an Irish folk tale, with roots deep in the Cinderella story, set in 15th-century Ireland.

Category: Picture story books, Myths and Legends
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £6.99
Sivu's Six Wishes

Taoist tale of a stonemason who discovers to his amazement that there is someone more powerful than any rock - the stonecutter who shapes it.

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Hardback    £11.99
The Star Bearer

A poetic retelling of an ancient Egyptian myth about how day, night and the starry universe were first created.

Category: Cultural Diversity, Picture story books, Myths and Legends
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Item is currently out of stock
Paperback    £6.99
To Every Thing There Is a Season

The words of Ecclestiastes take on new meaning in the sun-baked setting of a South African homestead.

Category: Picture story books, World Religions
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £6.99