Lesley Beake

Lesley Beake (born 1949) is a Scottish-born South African children's author.

Life About Lesley Beake

Lesley Beake was born in Scotland and went to school in Edinburgh She lives in South Africa, where she has worked as a teacher. Her children's novels, "which address the plight of children of certain tribes in southern Africa, attract an adult audience."

Works

• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure: the journal of Peter David Hadden, 1986
• The Strollers, 1987. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1986-1988, Winner of the Young African Award, 1987-1988
• A Cageful of Butterflies, 1989. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1988-9. Winner of the M-Net Book Prize, 1991.
• Rainbow, 1989
• Traveller, 1989
• Merino, 1989
• Serena's Story, 1990
• Tjojo and the wild horses, 1990
• Song of Be, 1991
• Bau and the baobab tree, 1992
• Mandi's wheels, 1992
• The Race, 1992
• Café Thunderball, 1993
• One dark, dark night, 1993
• Jakey, 1997
• An Introduction to Africa, 2000
• Home Now, 2006
• Remembering Green, 2009

References

• Yearwood, Emerging into Independence:The Self and the Culture in Lesley Beake's Song of Be, The Alan Review 24:3 (Spring 1997)

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