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| Resource: | Children's Book (B057.0000) Desert December |
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| Author: | Haarhoff | |
| Length: | 30 pages | |
| Heading: | 040 — Christmas | |
| Subjects: | Children's Books | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780395613009 | |
| Description: | CHRISTMAS One day, early in December, Seth's mother tells him that she is going to the village at the copper mine, to be with Seth's father and await the family's new baby. Seth is to stay behind with his Grandfather Nampa. But Seth decides to cross the Kuiseb Canyon and join his paents. In the donkey cart he and his father built, he travels the night time desert, under the Namib starts and the white moon, carrying with him a special Christmas gift he made himself Haarhoff's eloquent prose and Vermeulen's detailed illustrations evoke the wildness, the color and the vitality of the African desert during a magical time of year for Seth and his family. |
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| Age Groups: | None specified. |
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