Jaya’s Something Special

In Jaya’s Something Special, Jaya longs to feel included in her auntys’ wedding, the women in her family show her what it REALLY means to be special.

From picture-book author Shireen Lalji and New York Times bestselling artist Lucy Fleming, in Jaya’s Something Special, a little girl discovers what itreally means to be special, with the help of the important women in her life.

Zeena Masi and Aunty Maria are getting married, and the house is packed with aunties, uncles and cousins. Everyone seems to be busy with all kinds of special, important jobs to prepare for the wedding. Jaya wants a special job, too, and she tries her very best to be part of the big, exciting day.

But everything she does just goes wrong somehow she drops a heavy tray of sweets, gets tangled up in fairy lights and splodges her mehndi patterns. She can’t seem to get anything right. It makes her feel so . small.