Suitabook
Why is there a hole in the wall?
Kirsty Paxton
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Kirsty Paxton. Illustrator: Amy Slatem. Designer: Danielle Botha. Editor: Catherine Parkinson.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Why is there a hole in the wall? (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at each answer and invite your child to notice what kind of explanation it is. At the end, ask what they would like to keep wondering about.
- Themes
- Curiosity and unanswered questions: Lungisa asks several people why there is a hole in the wall, listens to their answers, and continues asking. His persistence is treated warmly: his sister predicts he will keep asking, and the story ends with laughter.
- Different beliefs and explanations: Family members and others offer explanations involving waves, a giant fish, ancestors, God and a ship. The answers appear side by side, but the story does not say whether they are equally intended as beliefs, guesses or facts.
- Worth knowing
- The answers include spiritual and ancestral beliefs alongside explanations involving waves and a ship. The story presents them as different responses, without establishing which is factually correct.