Natasha reads to children
Every year, the National Book Trust organises a Book Week. During the week, children have a reading tent.
By Raphael Okello
Every year, the National Book Trust organises a Book Week. During the week, children have a reading tent.
In this tent, children from different schools read many storybooks. They also learn how to paint, write, tell stories and make moulds using clay. Gifts are also given to children.
This year’s City Reading Tent was at Garden City mall. Children from different schools visited it. It started on Monday, September 18, and ends today.
On Wednesday, Natasha Karugire, President Yoweri Museveni’s daughter, visited the children in the reading tent. Because she loves children, she wrote a short story about two friends – Nzima and Njunju. She came with the storybook. She read the story to children from Molly and Paul Primary School, Sir Apollo Kaggwa, St. Andrew Masanafu P/S, Old Kampala P/S and St Veronica Lugala.
The children surrounded her and listened attentively. as she narrated.
Njunju and Nzima were half-sisters and best friends but Njunju’s mother was so bad to Nzima because she was more beautiful than her daughter.
She tried to poison her and when she failed, she asked some men to hide Nzima far away in the lake. Njunju told her father and her sister was found before she died of hunger.
Natasha signed some copies of her storybook and gave them to four children who had earlier also read and told stories of their own.
Every year, the National Book Trust organises a Book Week. During the week, children have a reading tent.
In this tent, children from different schools read many storybooks. They also learn how to paint, write, tell stories and make moulds using clay. Gifts are also given to children.
This year’s City Reading Tent was at Garden City mall. Children from different schools visited it. It started on Monday, September 18, and ends today.
On Wednesday, Natasha Karugire, President Yoweri Museveni’s daughter, visited the children in the reading tent. Because she loves children, she wrote a short story about two friends – Nzima and Njunju. She came with the storybook. She read the story to children from Molly and Paul Primary School, Sir Apollo Kaggwa, St. Andrew Masanafu P/S, Old Kampala P/S and St Veronica Lugala.
The children surrounded her and listened attentively. as she narrated.
Njunju and Nzima were half-sisters and best friends but Njunju’s mother was so bad to Nzima because she was more beautiful than her daughter.
She tried to poison her and when she failed, she asked some men to hide Nzima far away in the lake. Njunju told her father and her sister was found before she died of hunger.
Natasha signed some copies of her storybook and gave them to four children who had earlier also read and told stories of their own.