Book Buddy in Liliencron street, Eros, Windhoek, is now a stockist of Animalogy: About Wild Animals by Enid Milton.
Meet the Author
Enid Milton was born in England and educated at grammar school in High Wycombe. Because her parents were poor, she was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen (16).
Enid says that, as a consequence, she did everything late in life; she became a college student at 28, obtained her B. A. degree at 48, got married at 50 and started writing stories and poetry for children after retiring at age 60.
After leaving school and finding employment, Enid worked at bookkeeping and managing accounts for twelve (12) years, before realising a longstanding ambition to enter the teaching profession. She enrolled for a teacher training course at Whitelands College in London and taught at a primary school for two (2) years, thereafter.
Next, Enid became a missionary. After a year's training at a missionary college in Birmingham, she was posted to Namibia to teach at a missionary primary school where she was the only European and also, the only trained and qualified teacher, at the time. It was under apartheid and unfortunately, the prevailing war conditions in the country at the time, brought to an abrupt end her missionary work. Instead of leaving, she chose to stay in the country. Since that time, she has taught both children and adults in various towns and rural settlements in Namibia, specialising in English, especially after English was adopted the official language of Namibia following independence from South Africa in 1990.
In between writing, Enid keeps busy doing a variety of odd jobs in her church office, for the Federation of the Visually Impaired, at a local theatre school and for the Namibian charter of the Girl Guides.
Enid Milton has written a number of stories and poems for children. Three (3) of her stories were published in a series of English readers for primary schools, and a collection of six (6) stories and six (6) poems were translated into Braille and are currently used to teach English in schools for visually impaired children.
This extraordinary collection of poems for children aged 10 - 12, Animalogy - About Wild Animals, by Enid Milton, is beautifully illustrated by Namibian visual artist, Immanuel Nicodemus, well known for his superb works of art in a study of surrealism. This book is will make anyone a wonderful gift and is indeed a collector's item.
For more information about this book, contact Anya at Book Buddy, bookbuddynamibia@gmail.com or (061) 302 711.
Enid Milton was born in England and educated at grammar school in High Wycombe. Because her parents were poor, she was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen (16).
Enid says that, as a consequence, she did everything late in life; she became a college student at 28, obtained her B. A. degree at 48, got married at 50 and started writing stories and poetry for children after retiring at age 60.
After leaving school and finding employment, Enid worked at bookkeeping and managing accounts for twelve (12) years, before realising a longstanding ambition to enter the teaching profession. She enrolled for a teacher training course at Whitelands College in London and taught at a primary school for two (2) years, thereafter.
Next, Enid became a missionary. After a year's training at a missionary college in Birmingham, she was posted to Namibia to teach at a missionary primary school where she was the only European and also, the only trained and qualified teacher, at the time. It was under apartheid and unfortunately, the prevailing war conditions in the country at the time, brought to an abrupt end her missionary work. Instead of leaving, she chose to stay in the country. Since that time, she has taught both children and adults in various towns and rural settlements in Namibia, specialising in English, especially after English was adopted the official language of Namibia following independence from South Africa in 1990.
In between writing, Enid keeps busy doing a variety of odd jobs in her church office, for the Federation of the Visually Impaired, at a local theatre school and for the Namibian charter of the Girl Guides.
Enid Milton has written a number of stories and poems for children. Three (3) of her stories were published in a series of English readers for primary schools, and a collection of six (6) stories and six (6) poems were translated into Braille and are currently used to teach English in schools for visually impaired children.
This extraordinary collection of poems for children aged 10 - 12, Animalogy - About Wild Animals, by Enid Milton, is beautifully illustrated by Namibian visual artist, Immanuel Nicodemus, well known for his superb works of art in a study of surrealism. This book is will make anyone a wonderful gift and is indeed a collector's item.
For more information about this book, contact Anya at Book Buddy, bookbuddynamibia@gmail.com or (061) 302 711.
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