Niki Daly

These stories follow Lolo as she skips through life in a South African community. Lolo's everyday adventures will make her a favorite character for young readers everywhere. These easy-to-read, happy and humorous stories are illustrated on every page. They bring daily life in a South African community alive in all its richness and diversity. Lolo skips through life - eager, merry and mischievous - leaving behind a trail of laughter and a few frowns....

Lolo skips through life - eager, merry and mischievous - leaving a trail of laughter and a few frowns.

Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.

Bernard loves his aunts but he doesn't want to be kissed by them and adamantly insists on "No more kisses."

Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.

In Africa, Mama Jumbo puts on a jazzy dress, struggles to get her hat straight with no mirror, then jumps in Mr. Motiki's taxi to go to the market, where she finds everything she needs and more.