Titles: Sox Goes To School with Daara; Sports Day; Daara’s New School; Sox Goes Away & Only Yesterday
Publisher: Nelson Publishers
Reviewer: Olutayo Irantiola
Children literature is one of the literary pieces that take one aback. It can be a skillful dramatic return to one’s growing with details of how life was at that time. In the same manner, writers of children literature patiently reflect on the thing that distinguishes their age from the current age. O’Yemi Afolabi has painstakingly documented a lovely children story in short stories of different titles that made up a series.
One of the stories titled “Sox Goes to School with Daara” is a narration of the Daara Ariyibi’s taking a cat to the school. On this fateful day, she woke up crossed with everyone for not coming to wake her up early. Daara loved Sox, one of the kittens she named after Fifi, the mother cat, gave birth to four kittens. Daara hurriedly picked her bag from the study and left for school. When she got to school, she unzipped her bag and Sox pops out. This created a scene in the school. Daara’s friend, Naia, was implored not to mention it to her mum. It was a playful ride for the children back to their various homes as they played with the cat. Daara got home and implored her nanny, Aunty Sabrina, not to mention it to her Mum.
