VIDEO: Local author gives back on Library Week
Local author and creator of Dancing Pencils Literacy Development Project and Umsinsi Press, Felicity Keats reads to the children.
IN celebration of Library Week the Malvern Library invited children aged 4 to 6 years from Robb-Ann Pre-School for a library orientation programme.
Local author and creator of Dancing Pencils Literacy Development Project and Umsinsi Press, Felicity Keats also visited on that day to read to the children.
Keats has authored more than 23 books and has been doing it for 50 years.
The children from Robb-Ann Pre School had the privilege to hear one of Keates books The Old Stove.
She explained how the book came about, she once read a book she wrote to her four-year- old granddaughter and she hated it and thought it was so boring, then her granddaughter decided to tell her a story about an old stove that ate up everything in the kitchen.
Keate said, “I then thought, what could make the stove so angry, a new microwave perhaps?”
Keate and her granddaughter did the graphics on the book, “I drew the stove because at that time she couldn’t draw squares, so she did all the people in the book,” she said.
Her granddaughter is now a graphic designer.
The author said the Department of Education recommended the book for grade 3 pupils.
