One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story everything goes wrong for newspaper-seller Jacob. He gets up late and misses his bus, and his papers are blown away.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Junior African Writers, Junior African Writers Level 1 .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 1991 by Pearson Education Limited .

Acclaimed author Dianne Stewart has degrees in African Languages, Literature and Psychology. She has written numerous popular books for children that have been published both locally and internationally, most recently Folktales from Africa (also published by Struik Children), and many of these have been translated into various European, African and Eastern languages.