Antoinette and the Story of the Invisible Giraffes
by Alison McGregor
The Baboon King (Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf))
by Anton Quintana
An extraordinary experience of life in the wild at the extremes of physical and psychological endurance...The baboons jumped up and down, screeching and gesticulating. Only the king had not yet moved. His silver-grey mane stood out. He pulled back his black lips repeatedly, baring his long yellow teeth, but that was all. Slowly Morengaru began to understand what this meant. He was being challenged - not by the whole group, but by the leader. Morengaru did not fire his deadly arrows at the king...
Anansi the Spider is one of the great folk heroes of the world. He is a rogue, a mischief maker, and a wise, lovable creature who triumphs over larger foes. In this traditional Ashanti tale, Anansi sets out on a long, difficult journey. Threatened by Fish and Falcon, he is saved from terrible fates by his sons. But which of his sons should Anansi reward? Calling upon Nyame, the God of All Things, Anansi solves his predicament in a touching and highly resourceful fashion. In adapting this popular...
The Children of Light (Children of Light, #1)
by Elizabeth Adekunle and Adetoro Adekunle
Search for the sunset (West African True Stories, #2)
by Patrick Mballa
First published in 1925, Pauline Smith's beautiful collection of stories set in the South Africa of her childhood is a lyrical and moving look at growing up in a remote landscape. Smith captures life in the heart of the Little Karoo, a mostly uninhabited terrain, where rain may not fall for years at a time. Poor, white early-Afrikaner settlers beset by hard times and an unforgiving landscape, the characters in her stories overcome tragedy time and time again, refusing to be broken.