Author: Mwenye Hadithi
Illustrator: Adrienne Kennaway
He recruits the help of Baboon and Baby Baboon to trap Hare whom he plans to eat for his dinner. But Leopard is outwitted and Baby Baboon laughs and laughs. The authors have written “Hot Hippo” and “Crafty Chameleon” in the same series.
Price: R95
Climb to the top of Lonesome Mountain to meet a very special boy named Rink — every full moon, he grows flowers all over his body. This heartwarming story celebrates difference and friendship, as Rink meets a girl with her own secret, and they discover ways to help each other.
Ages 4 to 10 years
Written By: Jen Wojtowicz
Illustrated By: Steve Adams
Price: R160
Author: Mweyne Hadithi
Bumping Buffalo liked to bump. He had great big horns with a huge pad in the middle, just right for bumping the other animals. This is the story of how Buffalo went looking for trouble and found it!
Price: R95
Author: Mwenye Hadithi
Illustrator: Adrienne Kennaway
Tormented every morning by leopard and bullied by crocodile, the clever little chameleon decides to play a trick on them. He manages to get the better of his two oppressors without them even knowing how he did it! This is the story of why Crafty Chameleon changes colour and hides when he hears you coming.
Price: R95
Author: Mwenye Hadithi
Illustrator: Adrienne Kennaway
Long ago on the Great African Plains, it was so dry before the rain came that all the animals were hot, and thirsty, and hungry. All, that is, except Cross Crocodile. This is the story of how Monkey tricked Crocodile into sharing his food with the other animals.
Price: R95
Author: Mwenye Hadithi, Adrienne Kennaway
In the days before the Big Rains, many of the animals looked very different. This is the story of how Enormous Elephant came to wave his long trunk and swish his long tail on the Great Plains.
Price: R95
Author: Mwenye Hadithi
Illustrator: Adrienne Kennaway
When the animals discovere a cave full of furs and skins, they discarde their drab skins for glossy new ones. Greedy zebra, arrives late, after a delicious snack, only to find a few stripes of black cloth. He squeezes into them but Greedy Zebra iis too big for them and his new coat bursts open!
The story of how all the animals chose their clothing, except for Greedy Zebra, who had to take the left-over piece.
Price: R95
Author: Mwenye Hadithi, Adrienne Kennaway
On the Great Grassy African Plain Handsome Hog had a beautiful smooth coat and an extremely elegant tail. This is the story of how Handsome Hog lost his looks and became known as Warthog to the other animals.
Mwenye Hadithi is a pen name and means a story-teller in Swahili.
Price: R95
Dig underground with moles, soar high into the mountains with eagles, and travel down a tropical river with crocodiles. This rhyming selection explores the homes of many different creatures, and includes educational endnotes about the animals and their habitats.
Ages 3 to 8 years
Written By: Brenda Williams
Illustrated By: Rosamund Fowler
Price: R85