Read: Lara the Yellow Ladybird (in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi and Sesotho)

Lara is not like the regular ladybird, she has yellow wings. She wishes they were red like everyone else's.

Read on to see what convinced her to love her wings.

Created by Martha Evans (writer), Catherine Holtzhausen (illustrator) and Nadene Kriel (designer). Edited by Ester Levinrad.

This story is brought to you by Book Dash, a local organisation that gathers creative volunteers to create new African storybooks that anyone can freely print, translate and distribute.

Download the Afrikaans pdf here

Download the English pdf here

Download the isiXhosa pdf here 

Download the isiZulu pdf here

Download the Sepedi pdf here

Download the Sesotho pdf here

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