📚📖👏 Dubbed the youngest published author in SA, Hallelujah enjoys playing the piano, ballet, baking and being a big sister. Read more on TheCitizenNews ⤵️
Young author Hallelujah Khumalo, who is in grade 1, poses for a photograph, 25 April 2023, at her parents' home in Sandton. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya/The Citizen
She captured the hearts of many people and inspired children across SA with her newly published book,When the Redhill School Grade 1 pupil turned five in 2021, she decided to write a book for her friend –– instead of buying a gift, “something straight from my heart, written and compiled by me”, she says with a huge smile on her face.
“I wanted other children to know that it’s okay not to fit in and that no matter what the challenge is, there is always space for each and every one of us in the world.” “Based on a book I’ve read – A Planet Full of Plastic: And how You Can Help by Neal Layton – I want to teach people about the importance of having a clean environment and not littering.”
Hallelujah’s parents, Skhona and Theodora Khumalo, started teaching Hallelujah how to read just after she turned three, “because she would always be interested in the things her mom read, she would always ask what she was reading and what certain words meant”. “And with the books she has been writing – from the first one – she applied herself consistently. She sort of becomes focused until she achieves her goal, whatever the goal is, whether riding a bicycle, swimming, piano, anything.”Skhona described Hallelujah as an independent thinker, empathetic and a genuinely conscious and compassionate seven year old, “it’s really startling and humbling to be the parent who just has to guide her, I mean we learn a lot from her”.
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