Lolo Series by Niki Daly
 | Meet the irrepressible Lolo, a good-natured youngster who loves gold stars and embellishing her paintings with glitter. Lolo lives with her mother and her grandmother in South Africa. This girl has a mind of her own. She is not interested in the library book with the fairy wearing a frilly pink tutu. No. She wants the book featuring a terrible monster with horns and tusks. |
Both Hooray for Lolo and Here Comes Lolo are easy-to-read chapter books brimming with the exploits of this charismatic youngster. She has a lot going on. There are matters of conscience when she finds a beautiful gold ring and later attempts to rescue a neglected dog. She bravely faces surgery for appendicitis and learns about misunderstandings when she doesn’t receive an invitation to a classmate’s party. Mother and grandmother gently help Lolo learn to confront fear, conflict, and injustice.
Because the series is set in South Africa, readers will encounter some regional vernacular. For example, Molo is a common Zulu greeting and the Zulu name for grandmother is Gogo. A punctuation mark located at the end of a sentence is referred to as a full stop. Illustrations and contextual cues help youngsters decode the meaning of unfamiliar terms.
| Trim size of about 5” x 8” fits nicely into small hands. Book design features large font with plenty of white space as well as delightful grey scale drawing on every page. Daly’s illustrations capture the personality and unique idiosyncrasies of each character. |  |  |
Lolo is a little charmer whose stories will enchant readers. More Lolo books please.
Hooray for Lolo by Niki Daly Pub date: May 5, 2020 Publisher: Catalyst Press ISBN: 978-1946395382 | Here Comes Lolo by Niki Daly Pub date: April 28, 2020 Publisher: Catalyst Press ISBN: 978-1946395368 |
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