Niki Daly has won numerous awards for his work as an author and illustrator. "All the Magic in the World" (1994) won the IBBY Certificate of Honour for Illustration and "Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky" (1995) won the Anne Izard Story Teller's Choice Award.
Christopher Gregorowski worked for many years among the Xhosa people in Transkei, South Africa, as an Anglican priest. There he discovered the story of Fly, Eagle, Fly in the biography of Aggrey of Africa, who visited West and Southern Africa in the 1920s from his teaching post in North America. He decided to rewrite the story for his terminally ill daughter, Rosalind. Christopher is Bishop of Table Bay in South Africa. Niki Daly's first book, The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Road, won a British Arts Council Illustration Award. It was followed by Not So Fast Songololo, which won a Parents' Choice Award in the U.S. He wrote and illustrated the four Jamela books, including What's Cooking, Jamela? which was voted Best Book of 2002 by Young Booktrust. Once Upon a Time was selected as one of the Best Books of 2003 by Child Education. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
"The people, the birds and the glorious landscape are beautifully portrayed in Niki Daly's loose but authoritative brush drawings" Books for Keeps
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