Journey to Jo'burg (Essential Modern Classics) (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics)

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A South African Story) however, this is a full draft of the story, the earlier draft is in bullet-point form. Naidoo found misleadingportrayalsof South Africa, racist perceptions and a very limited, one sided view of a country under apartheid law.

The Other Side of The Truth (2000), Web of Lies (2004), Burn My Heart (2008) and Out of Bounds (2008).This is the notice sent to Beverley's sister-in-law from the Doeane en Aksyns Customs and Excise to inform of the seizure of prohibited material. Printed at the beginning of the book are two newspaper articles which draw Naidoo's fiction into reality. Banned by the apartheid government in South Africa, this is the story of two children’s courage and determination to find their mother and bring her home. These newspaper reports are very similar to the story of Tiro and Naledi - they are the seed of truth from which her fiction grows.

The associations from school children, a small selection of which you can see in the above photograph, are a very interesting way to look at perceptions of South Africa. so simple and straightforward that it makes accessible even to quite young children the difficult and the profound. Walking is a very prominent feature in Beverley Naidoo's Journey to Jo’burg, a story that delivers a subtle and powerful message about apartheid South Africa. Although many of her books are set in South Africa, she also focusses on refugees and immigration in her latest stories.

Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo is a fantastic, thought-provoking story about diversity, equality and acceptance. Naidoo's collection covers a large proportion of her career and includes her PhD thesis, novels, short stories, picture books, professional and personal correspondence. It has been a political journey, a one of social history and opinion, and hopefully a step towards a more equal world.