Graça’s Dream
Graça Michel dreams of helping the children in her country to read.
Short Story for children by Melissa Fagan.
Design and illustrations by Karlien de Villiers and Marike le Roux.
* The story Graça’s Dream was created by Book Dash and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Minor formatting changes have been made to the original work to enable it to be read on our website.
Let’s Chat About The Stories ~ Ideas for Talking With Kids
Learning
1. Do you go to a school? What do you think is the best thing about learning at a school?
2. Why do you think it is important for children around the world to be able to read?
Independent Thinking
3. Graça makes changes in her country that make people’s lives better. Can you think of some ways that the people in your country could have better lives? What could you do to help these changes happen?