Suitabook
Play with me
Sabina Mutangadura Seldon
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Sabina Mutangadura Seldon. Illustrator: Heleen Steyn van der Merwe. Designer: Jamie Calf. Editor: David Mann.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Play with me (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at the spreads where Jabu asks family members to play and invite your child to read the expressions and pictures. You could also talk about what diketo looks like being played.
- Themes
- Seeking company: Jabu wants to play diketo, but his mother is cooking and his brother is reading. He plays alone before his father and then his brother join. The ending presents playing together as joyful, while the earlier pages acknowledge Jabu’s disappointment at being alone.
- Worth knowing
- Jabu looks sad when nobody is free to play at first. The story soon shifts towards company and shared play; the moment of waiting may be worth noticing with a child who relates to it.