Sieta is a young South African girl who has been brought by Aunty to a new home in a bustling township that is very different from the more rural place she had lived with her parents before they died of AIDS. The grieving girl’s adjustment is eased when she meets an orphan elephant on a school trip to a nearby park and they become friends. Littlewood’s rich watercolor and gouache paintings add warmth and cheer to the somber narrative about the plight of so many children orphaned by Africa’s AIDS epidemic. bal

Originally published by Frances Lincoln Great Britain, in 2006.

Sieta remembers a happy home far away over the mountains, but now she is living with her Aunty in a place she calls Home Now. Her new home is a busy, friendly place, but Sieta can't seeem to smile. Then one day she meets an orphaned baby elephant at the elephant park, and she begins to see things in a different light.