Books By Avril van der Merwe, Heidi-Kate Greeff - Author

Avril van der Merwe is the author of How Cheetah Got His Tears (Puffin Books, 2017) and Once Upon a Rhinoceros (Puffin Books, 2018) as well as several prize-winning children’s stories set in Africa. She developed a love of writing for children while working as a Montessori pre-primary school teacher in Cape Town and a high school English in Johannesburg. Now living in California, she works as an inspirational writer and speaker, and continues to write both children’s stories and adult fiction.