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Thuli, Special and the Secret
Baeletsi Tsatsi
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Baeletsi Tsatsi. Illustrator: Yihenew Worku. Designer: Dali Gaga. Editor: Monique Whitaker.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Thuli, Special and the Secret (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Enjoy the pictures of Thuli and Special together, then pause to discuss the difference between sharing something and taking it without asking. Let the child decide what they make of the secret.
- Themes
- A secret act of sharing: Thuli takes cookies intended for her visiting parents and gives them to Special, calling it their little secret. The warm exchange presents the secret as affectionate, while the cookies were kept for someone else and are taken without permission.
- Worth knowing
- Thuli goes into the kitchen while her grandmother is asleep and takes cookies from the oven. The act is presented warmly, so a child may not read it as breaking a rule.