Treat your kids to an extra dose of wonder this holiday season by taking them to a personal book reading with the author. Gretchen Ryan will be doing a fun, interactive reading from her children’s book There’s an Elephant in my Swimming Pool. The reading will take place at Exclusive Books V&A Waterfront (Cape Town) on Saturday 20 December at 11am. The visitors will be kept engaged with an exciting piece from the story and colouring in pages.

About the book

While on holiday at his Grampa’s game farm near the Kruger National Park, eleven-year-old Toby has close encounters with various dangerous wild animals, but worse than that, the most dangerous of all; rhino and elephant poachers! Toby is adamant to catch the poachers, while his younger and more responsible sister, Tara, makes his mission difficult. With his parents forbidding him to go into the bush, and his sister watching his every move, will Toby be able to stop the poachers?

Genre: children’s adventure Pages: 160 Publisher: KREST

ISBN: 978-0-6397-6603-4

Format: paperback

Year of release: 2023