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Lonwabo’s Recipes

Lonwabo loves helping grandmother grow vegetables to make delicious meals for the family. He dreams of opening a restaurant one day and cooking just like his granny.

Suggested age: 7–12岁 · Reading level L3 · 14 illustrated pages

Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 1, English text included

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Lonwabo loves helping grandmother grow vegetables to make delicious meals for the family. He dreams of opening a restaurant one day and cooking just like his granny.

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Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 1, English text included
Lonwabo’s Recipes
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 2, English text included
Lonwabo was a ten-year-old boy. He lived with his mother and grandmother.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 3, English text included
Lonwabo's grandmother had the most beautiful and rich vegetable garden. He enjoyed helping his grandmother weed the garden and water the vegetables.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 4, English text included
He had to fetch water from the river. He was not a lazy boy. He would walk down the hill and up again. He would pass his friends playing soccer and they would laugh out loud and say to him, "Lonwabo why do you do that? That is a girl's job, we would never do that."
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 5, English text included
Lonwabo laughed them off and continued with his journey. He would think about all the happy times with his grandmother in the garden.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 6, English text included
These thoughts made him forget about the long journey and about his friends' comments. He liked guessing how many carrots would be in each bunch before his grandmother pulled them out of the ground.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 7, English text included
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 8, English text included
Lonwabo's grandmother always prepared lunch for him, while he was at school and his mother was at work. Every day he came home to find his food already prepared and left out on the table for him.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 9, English text included
Immediately after taking off his school uniform he sat at the table, said a little prayer and began to eat.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 10, English text included
His grandmother prepared all kinds of meals for their lunches. He loved his grandmother's tasty meals.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 11, English text included
When he finished eating, he would wash his dish, take a book and pencil and go and sit next to his grandmother. He asked her about the ingredients in the meal he had just eaten and carefully wrote down every little detail.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 12, English text included
He told himself that when grows up, he is going to open his own restaurant. He will name the restaurant after his grandmother and make all the meals that his grandmother makes for him.
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 13, English text included
Lonwabo’s Recipes — original illustrated page 14, English text included

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Written by
Mihlali Kumalo
Illustrated by
Sarah-Rose de Villiers
Created by
Zandile “Maxet” Makina (Designer); Sarah-Rose de Villiers (Illustrator); Mihlali Kumalo (Writer); Linda Nelani (Editor)

Source: Book Dash
Original: Lonwabo’s Recipes from Book Dash
License: CC BY 4.0

Original illustrated spreads and embedded English story text preserved; website layout and printable PDF assembled by Little Leaf. Age, level, theme and recommendation are editorial suggestions. Web and printable layout adapted by Little Leaf. Age and reading-level suggestions are editorial. Original stories and artwork belong to their credited creators. Website narration uses the selected synthetic Voice 7.