Picture BooksChildren's African Animal Tales (5 Books)
R369
About
Mwenye Hadithi was born in Nairobi in a rambling brick and wood house surrounded by ten acres. His early life was full of animals. He attended London University, studying languages and foreign literature. When his first attempts at short stories and radio plays were sold immediately, he decided to be the next great African Writer
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Awkward Aardvark
Aardvark's snoring keeps the other animals awake night after night. Something has got to be done! Mongoose calls on the others for help, but it is not until the termites get involved that the problem is solved. This is the story of how Awkward Aardvark came to sleep during the day and eat termites at night.
Bumping Buffalo
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!
Enormous Elephant
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.
Greedy Zebra
When the animals discover a cave full of furs and skins, they discard 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 is too big for them and his new coat bursts open!
Hungry Hyena
Hungry Hyena steals Fish Eagle's dinner and sets off a chain of events that leads to the hyenas reaching for the moon...with disastrous results. This is the story of how Hungry Hyena came to slink about on the great African plain and how Fish Eagle soars in the clouds.
Broken English says it best!
It's no secret that English can be an incredibly complex language to try and get your head around. The internet is chock full of memes and poems about it. Like, if the plural of 'mouse' is 'mice', why isn't the plural of 'house', 'hice'? Then you get the confusion that comes along with words that look the same but are pronounced differently: 'At present, there is no one to present the presentation.' Don't even get us started on how many friends get confused between 'they're', 'there' and 'their'.
South Africans take things even further, calling traffic lights 'robots', and not quite understanding why the poor foreigner asking for directions looks more lost than before. By now, you're probably confused because none of this has anything to do with our main deal of a ladies long sleeve knit sweater from Banana Republic. But actually it does. Because why is it called a 'sweater' when it doesn't even 'sweat'? We give up.