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In 2002, Wendy and Shirley teamed up and started selecting the stories now included in our best-selling Footprints On Our Land homeschool curriculum. 15 years later, this curriculum is still relevant, popular and evergreen. One of the main reasons for this is that we do not tell you want to think. Instead, we encourage you to teach your children that we all see both history and current events from our own unique perspectives. We encourage you to look at any situation from more than one perspective and to draw your own conclusions. The other reason, is that children LOVE stories, and in Footprints, we have a collection of some of the best South African children’s historical fiction of all time – of which the lion’s share was authored by award-winning author Jenny Seed. |
| We were delighted to discover that she has recently moved to Cape Town and so last week, Wendy and I had the privilege of visiting her and meeting her in person. We took a Footprints On Our Land programme to show her how we have used her stories as the backbone to our literature-based curriculum and we told her how her stories are still impacting children across South Africa and the world, through our homeschooling programme. She has created a legacy of ‘living books’!
We would like our clients, who have used this programme or are using it, to please get your children to write a letter (or email) to Jenny and tell her how much they have enjoyed and learned from her stories. Encourage them to send pictures, photos or anything that expresses their enjoyment…even pictures of your family reading her books aloud together.
We would like to send these to her and bring some more joy to her in her retirement.
Send them to footprintsonourland@mweb.co.za or on our Footprints Facebook group.
We thought we would dedicate this newsletter to Jenny and share some biographical information about her with you. |
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Jenny Seed is one of South Africa’s most prolific and widely published English children’s book authors and was of the first to be published internationally. Her first book was published in 1968 and she told us that her first historical children’s novel, which is included in Footprints too, was The Red Dust Soldiers. This is a story about the siege of Ladysmith, during the South African War, at the turn of the last century. She said that after that story, she got ‘hooked’ on writing historical novels.
Jay Heale, an author and South African children’s literature expert once called her “the mother or perhaps grandmother of South African English children’s literature”. Now aged 86, with over 50 books published, she is most worthy of that title!
Jenny Seed is a Christian author, regarded to have a liberal view of history and in her stories she conveys to her readers that there is always more than one side to a story. Her novels are about individuals whose honourable character traits enabled them to make a positive impact, even in crises or situations over which they had little control. This is something we encourage in our children too!
She told us that she researched the historical detail meticulously, spending hours at the Africana library in Durban and using primary resources such as letters that fell into her hands, from people who lived through the times she wrote about.
In 1983, her book, The New Fire, a story about a San boy, was honourably mentioned for the Percy Fitzpatrick Award and in 1987, Place Among the Stones about the siege of Kimberly, became the first English book to be awarded with the MER Prize for children’s literature. It has been suggested that the only reason that she didn’t win more awards and prizes for her stories is the scarcity of such awards for English children’s literature in South Africa.
We are grateful for the rich resources she has created for our children and yours and we honour Jenny Seed for her contribution to our South African literary heritage.
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