Tortoise Finds His House

by Maya Fowler, Katrin Coetzer (Illustrator)

Tortoise is looking for his house and his friends Snail, Robin, Mouse, and Ladybird help him. Your purchase of this book supports Library For All in its mission to make knowledge available to all, equally.

36 pages, Paperback

Published October 30, 2022

About the author

Maya Fowler is a writer and translator. She is the author of The Elephant in the Room (shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize) and the youth novels As jy ’n ster sien verskiet and Om op eiers te dans (winner of a Maskew Miller Longman award for youth literature). A children’s book of hers, Tortoise Finds His Home, won Unicef ’s Best Author in Early Childhood Development Literature Prize and was translated into Afrikaans. She grew up in Stellenbosch and Graaff-Reinet, and holds a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Stellenbosch. She lives and works in Canada.