Goodnight Zzzuma

Goodnight ZzzumaGenerations of children have been lulled to sleep with Margaret Wise Brown's and illustrator Clement Hurd's classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon. The parody, Goodnight Bush, was a rip roaring bestseller in the US when everyone was tired of Bush. Now it is our turn, with Goodnight Zzzuma! In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is President Jacob Zuma. "Goodnight room," he says to all the familiar things in the softly lit room to the pictures of his

Generations of children have been lulled to sleep with Margaret Wise Brown's and illustrator Clement Hurd's classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon. The parody, Goodnight Bush, was a rip-roaring bestseller in the US when everyone was tired of Bush. Now it is our turn, with Goodnight Zzzuma! In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is President Jacob Zuma. "Goodnight room," he says to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the pictures of his favourite wives, to the Guptas and the helipad, to the Karoo and fracking. To everything, one by one, he says goodnight. The book does illicit a few chuckles, but it does hit hard, especially when Zzzuma says goodnight to: "A nation, a struggle/ Reduced to a chuckle/ And a grand old man/ Whispering eish!"


Author Annonymous
ISBN 9781431422685
Format Hardback
Pages 42p.