I took the following information directly off of a webpage operated by Boston University:
1. BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS All of these books are
available for loan from the Boston University African Outreach Program.
Elinor Sisulu, The Day Gogo Went to Vote.
Sheila Gordon, Waiting for Rain [winner of several children's book awards (ages 12 & up)
_________, Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa (elem/middle)
Beverly Naidoo, Journey to Jo'burg A South African Storv [winner of several children's book awards]
_________, Chain of Fire, (ages 11 & up)
Hazel Rochman, ea., Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa [an ALA Best Book for Young Adults]
The Open School, Two Dogs and Freedom - drawings and observations about life in South Africa by black South African children
Mary Benson, Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement (advanced high school) [Mary Benson has also done a middle school level biography of Mandela]
Apartheid: Calibrations of Color (Icarus/Rosen Publishing Group). [winner of African Studies Assoc. award for children's book]short stories, plays, photos and personal essays by South Africans. [middle & high school]
Sarah Harris, Timeline: South Africa (Weighing Up the Evidence)
Gail Stewart, South Africa (Places in the News)
Hugh Lewin, The Day the Picture Came Alive [about the excitement of Nelson Mandela visiting children in a village soon after his release from prison]; [elementary school]
D. Stanley, Shaka: King of the Zulus
S. Harris, Timeline: South Africa. [middle school]
G. Stewart, South Africa: Places in the News. [middle school]
S. Otfinoski, Nelson Mandela [middle school]
Floyd Cooper, Mandela. [elementary school]
Rebecca Stefoff, Nelson Mandela A Voice Set Free
Jack Roberts, Nelson Mandela. [elementary school]
John Vail, Nelson and Winnie Mandela
N. Silver, No Tigers in Africa [a coming of age story about a white boy who is pushed to unlearn the prejudice he grew up withl; [middle school and higher]
M. Williams, The Genuine Half Moon Kid [a coming of age story about a white boy]; [middle school and higher]
Peter Lowis, South Africa: Free at Last ("Topics in the News" series)
In addition, the B.U. African Outreach Program has a series of short biographies, w/ photos, of key leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle. [grades 5-8]; [published in South Africa]
The following fine picture books take place in South Africa. They offer stories which vividly
depict the lives and culture of black South Africans.
Isadora, Over the Green Hills
_________, At the Crossroads
I. Mennen and N. Daly, Somewhere in Africa
N. Daly, Not So Fast Songololo
N. Daly, The Day of the Rainbow
C. Stock, Armien's Fishing Trip
H. Lewin, Jafta (series)
R. Schermbrucker and N. Daly, Charlie's House
J. Seed, Ntombi's Song
