Suitabook
Yes you can!
Xolile Sepuru
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Xolile Sepuru. Illustrator: Subi Bosa. Designer: Georgia Demertzis. Editor: Margot Bertelsmann.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Yes you can! (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at each child’s imagined job and invite discussion of the pictures as well as the words; then leave room for different ideas about Nandi’s future.
- Themes
- Gender and ambitions: A pupil says cooking is a girl’s job, and another says nursing is for girls; Teacher Langa counters both assumptions and the class joins in encouragement. The dismissive remarks are challenged within the story rather than left as the final word.
- Worth knowing
- Some children laugh at a boy’s wish to be a nurse, and classmates call art “not a real job”. Teacher Langa pushes back, but the teasing is part of the exchange.