Product Description
How Many Ways Can You Say Hello?
Author: Refiloe Moahloli
Format: Hardback
Recommended for ages 6+
Celebrating 25 Years of the SA Book Awards: Favourite previous winner shortlist 2025
Sara’s first day of school is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is that she discovers she doesn’t understand what the other children are saying and she wonders how she will make friends. Her teacher encourages her to find out the many ways one can say hello.
This delightful story of rhyming verse, accompanied by charming illustrations, is a must for all young South African children. And if parents/grandparents/carers aren’t sure how to pronounce ‘hello’ in all 11 official languages, there is a CD of the text, narrated by the author herself, to guide with authentic pronunciation.
About the Author
Refiloe Moahloli (www.refiloemoahloli.com) is a best-selling and award-winning author of multiple children’s books including How Many Ways Can You Say Hello?, How Many Ways Can You Say Goodbye?, Yes Yanga!, We Are One, You Are Loved, Let’s Play, Know My Name, Part of a Team and A Friend For All Seasons. Her awards include a South African Literary Award, South African Book Awards and an IBBY SA Picture Book Award. Refiloe’s books have been translated into several languages in South Africa and some abroad; We Are One (also known as I Am You: A Book About Ubuntu) and Let’s Play are published internationally as well. Refiloe is passionate about writing stories that bring out the best in the human spirit, stories in which children and the inner child in adults can identify and celebrate themselves. Zinelda McDonald’s first-ever preschool drawing was a rose. Neither the teacher nor her mother could tell what it was. But that hardly matters now – these days, her name graces numerous celebrated books as the illustrator. Over the years, she’s drawn all sorts of things: monsters, princesses, slippers, grannies, elephants, aliens, and yes – roses too. No one struggles to decipher her illustrations anymore; instead, they’ve earned her awards time and again.
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