“The innovative use of translanguaging in Halala Winner! enables young people to see their own multilingual language resources in print. Halala Cover2Cover for being a trail-blazer!” – Associate Professor Carolyn Mckinney, Education Department, UCT.
HALALA WINNER! (ISIZULU AND ENGLISH)
Halala Winner! is the first book in the My world, My words series. These stories have cartoon illustrations and use a mix of South African languages to tell local and exciting stories.
Sibulele is new at Jabulani Junior School. There he meets the Cool Girls and Funky Boys who call him a ‘loser’. Luckily he has friends who stick up for him: Anele, a classmate, and Mr Dube who sells fruit at the taxi rank. And when his class goes on a school outing, and danger threatens, Sibulele learns that winning can happen in all sorts of ways …
The Jabulani Kunye team includes Xolisa Guzula, illustrator Brandan Reynolds, Dorothy Dyer and Ros Haden.
“The innovative use of translanguaging in Halala Winner! enables young people to see their own multilingual language resources in print. Halala Cover2Cover for being a trail-blazer!” – Associate Professor Carolyn Mckinney, Education Department, UCT.
