Innehållsförteckning för Issue 13 2023 från The Little Issue

Enjoy the stories in this issue. Try and read the story Porridge by yourself. Skycatcher and It started with a puppy! are good bedtime stories. Ask someone to read them to you. Enjoy word games, puzzles and crafts in this issue. Plus, you can also make your own treats for school snack. Have a look at the recipe on page 11. Remember that a grown-up will need to help you with the oven. Our favourite giraffe, Rong, is hiding in the magazine. Can you find him? Have fun! Editor and writer of the little issue WHERE IS RONG HIDING? Little issue’s favourite character is hiding. Can you find him hidden in the pages of the magazine? Answers: Pages 16, 23…

It was a rainy day and Josh was sitting at the kitchen table making a kite. He had some light strips of wood which he used to make the frame of the kite. He also had some blue and red and green and pink tissue paper. He covered the whole kite with blue tissue paper. “This blue paper is the kite’s face!” decided Josh. He cut out red tissue paper to make happy smiling lips, green tissue paper for eyes, and pink tissue paper circles for cheeks. Then he made a long kite tail out of the blue, red, green and pink paper. “Your tail looks like the clothes dancing in the wind on Gogo’s washing line,” said Josh to the kite. Then he wound a very long piece of…

“Indaba, indaba, bandla Gogo, sicela usixoxele indaba,” kuncenga uNeo. UBella wamamatheka wavuma ngekhanda. “Yebo, siyakucela bandla,” kusho u-Afrika owayegone kuGogo. Wahleka uGogo. “Kulungile,” kusho yena, “ake nginixoxele indaba yokuthi naba abangani kanjani. Ngabe niyazi ukuthi kwaqala ngomdlwane?” UNeo wavuma ngekhanda. UBella wamamatheka wathi, “Sixoxele, sixoxele.” UGogo wabe eseqala ukuxoxa indaba. Ngobunye ubusuku, esikhathini esingekudala kakhulu, kwakukhona umdlwane owawuzula unuka imigqomo owawufika kuyo. Wawulambile futhi ulahlekile. Wawungazi ukuthi uyaphi kodwa wawazi ukuthi akunalutho esiswini sawo futhi udinga ukudla! “Umdlwane wabantu, bandla,” kusho u-Afrika. Kodwa kwakungekho kudla eduze kwemigqomo. Umdlwane wawukhalela phansi. Wawudinga ukudla nokuthola indawo yokulala efudumele. Wawehla ngomgwaqo. Kwakukhona izindlu eziningi kodwa ezinye zazo zazinezinja ezinkulu ezaziwukhonkotha ziwuvezele namazinyo azo. Wawesaba kakhulu. Kwase kuthi, ngasekugcineni komgwaqo, wabona indlu encane eyayingenazinja ezinkulu egcekeni. Yayinezibani ezikhanya ngaphakathi futhi yayibukeka ifudumele, inobungani, ngakho…

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Welcome to our first edition for 2023. And an especially warm welcome to the Aall Foundation, our new funder. 2023 is the third year for little issue in a five-year pilot to establish the learning efficacy and operational systems for sustainable magazine growth. We hope to increase our national reach and distribution footprint by printing and distributing at least 40 000 more magazines in 2023 than 2022 – from 160 000 to 200 000 copies. Together with Fondation Ipsen, our French founding funder and publishing partner, we will continue to translate our magazine into French which Fondation Ipsen prints and distributes to not only French-speaking countries throughout Francophone Africa, but also to Nepal and Vietnam. Besides the printed hard copies of the magazine, we are focused on increasing the number…

Yayiyimini yemvula, uJosh wayehleli etafileni yasekhitshini esenza ikayiti. Wayenamacwecwe akhaphukhaphu amaplanga awayewasebenzisela ukwenza isakhelo sekayiti. Wayenawo namaphetshana athambileyo emibala ezuba nabomvu amanye eluhlaza ekhona napinki. Wayombathisa yonke ikayiti ngephetshana elithambileyo elizuba. “Eli phetshana lizuba bubuso bekayiti!” wagqiba kwelo uJosh. Wasika iphetshana elibomvu ukwenza imilebe encumileyo ebonisa ulonwabo, iphetshana eliluhlaza walisebenzisela amehlo, laze iphetshana elipinki langqonga izidlele. Emva koko wenza umsila omde wekayiti ngephetshana elizuba, elibomvu, neliluhlaza kunye nelipinki. “Umsila wakho ubonakala njengeempahla ezixhentsa emoyeni kucingo lokwaneka iimpahla lukaGogo,” watsho uJosh kwikayiti. Emva koko wabhijela umtya omde kakhulu kumbhontshontsho wekhadibhodi waze wabophelela elinye icala lomtya kwisakhelo sekayiti, ukuze ingabhabhi imshiye emva kwexesha isemoyeni. “Igama lakho unguRhec’isibhakabhaka!” watsho uJosh kwikayiti. Kwintsasa elandelayo, uJosh wayehleli kwisihlalo esiqhutywayo phandle phambi komnyango okwicala elingaphambili lendlu esingathe uRhec’isibhakabhaka. Yayiyimini eyayikufanele ukubhajiswa kwekayiti. Wayelinde uHope. Wayeza kumtyhiliza…

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CIRCUS We have many amazing acts for you to watch. See our dancing clowns, jugglers, and balancing dogs. Then watch our trapeze artists and sky dancers. Come at lunch time and enjoy hot-dogs and popcorn. ADULTS – R20 School children - R5 Show starts at 1 o’clock. There is no cruelty to animals at our circus. What will you see at the circus? What time does the circus open? What time does it close? How much do schoolchildren pay to go in? What do adults pay to enter? Ooo! Who is that? The circus lady with her pet snake, Sirus. Did you know … • Snakes are not evil or bad.• They should not be killed or used to make medicine.• They are important part…