It fills us with positive vibes, it makes us feel optimistic, and it makes us feel even happier about our home and our appearance. Yet, there are some people who believe that yellow has been sitting in the dark for too long, and is ready to come out and shine once more… It can boost your moodĪlthough we hate to see the color yellow mocking us when it’s cold and rainy outside, being surrounded by the color yellow within our clothing and our interior design is enough to make us shriek with happiness in the summer. After all, who wants to be surrounded with yellow walls when it’s as grey as anything outside? That’s enough to cry. It’s been seen as garish, loud and completely inappropriate for most of the year. If you’re the kind of person who likes to keep up with the latest fashion trends and like to fill your house with all kinds of cool and quirky pieces of furniture (or, at least, you like to think you do), you’ll know that yellow has always been the kind of color to avoid. But with summer around the corner and the need for some a new take on old trends, can yellow finally enter its golden age? This is a good story, and will probably be enjoyed most by children between 10 and 13 years of age.The sunny side of the spectrum has been wrongfully reviled in the fashion and home decor industries for years. The ending is improbable, and many aspects of the story unrealistic, but the character of Mellow Yellow makes the book a worthwhile read. Mellow Yellow's gang does not allow smoking, drinking or stealing, so many issues of gang living are excluded from the story altogether, making it suitable for children. Characters fade in and out of the story without much explanation, and you only get a chance to get to know a handful of them. Despite the hardness of the life on the streets, Mellow Yellow's happiness make it light-hearted and fun. Each chapter is only a few pages long and the font is fairly large and bold, making it manageable for new or reluctant readers. Mellow Yellow is a very simple but enjoyable book. That secret proved to be the most wonderful thing that Mess could have hoped for. He promised himself that he would learn to read so that he could find out what secret the paper held. As he said to himself, “Hey, Mellow Yellow, you can't have it all, ou pellie!” All he had were the clothes he wore, including his jersey and an old tobacco tin that held his greatest treasure: a green paper. Life was hard for him and his 'good' gang, but he was happier than he had been for most of his short life. Mess, or Mellow Yellow as he was often called because of the bright yellow jersey he always wore, lived on the streets of Cape Town. Mellow Yellow was the first novel that she wrote for teenagers. Jenny Robson was the first person in history to win four consecutive prizes in the Sanlam Youth Novel Competition, among other awards. Mellow Yellow is the story of a street boy growing up in Cape Town, the city that the author, Jenny Robson, grew up in, and in which the book was published. She hates any form of stereotyping and sees every individual as a “never to be repeated entity.” Her favourite theme in her books is the utter uniqueness of the individual. Jenny loves writing for young people as she admires their spontaneity and lack of hypocrisy. She is widowed and has two adult sons who live in London, UK. Jenny now lives in Maun in Botswana where she still teaches music. She taught music there at Livingstone House for over thirty years. degree in Philosophy.Īfter two years of teaching in Simons Town, she moved to the diamond-mining town of Orapa in Botswana. She studied primary school teaching at the Teaching College in Mowbray and went on to study at the University of South Africa (Unisa) where she obtained her B.A. Jennifer Marion Robson (née Murray) is the first author to ever win four consecutive prizes in the Sanlam Youth Novel Competition for the novels Don’t Panic, Mechanic (1994), One Magic Moment (1996), The Denials of Kow-Ten (1998) and Because Pula Means Rain (2000).
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