Little Elephant's Walk

This tells of a baby elephant and the animals he sees as he walks along, including a herd of zebra, a chameleon and an ostrich. Nearly 40 birds and animals are introduced, with a brief comment about each. The author has also written "Crafty Chameleon", which won the 1987 Kate Greenaway Medal.

Children's Books

Kennaway, Adrienne

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Follows a little elephant as he observes the lion, giraffe, hippopotamus, cheetah, chameleon, and other animals that roam through his homeland of Africa.

Harpercollins

A fish who longs to fly and a bird who longs to swim trade fins and wings for a new look at life.

Lend Me Your Wings

Agard, John

Little,Brown & Co

Above all else Bushbaby loves figs and must find a way to outwit Monitor, the fierce lizard that guards the tree where the most delicious ones grow

Bushbaby

An original African folktale revolves around an aardvark who snores so loudly that none of the other animals in the jungle can sleep, until Rhinoceros comes up with a solution

Awful Aardvark

Kennaway, Mwalimu

Mwalimu

Hippo was hot and thought how wonderful it would be to live in the water. Hippo pleaded with the god of Everything and Everywhere to let him live in the rivers and streams. 
 Ngai agreed Hippo could live in the water but only if he promised not to eat the little fishes and to come out of the water at night and eat grass.
The story of how Hippo came to live in the river instead of on dry land.

Hot Hippo (African Animal Tales)

Hadithi, Mwenye

Animals

Hodder&Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

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.

Crafty Chameleon (African Animal Tales)

Written and illustrated by the same people as "Greedy Zebra", "Hot Hippo", "Crafty Chameleon" and "Tricky Tortoise", this is another book on an animals for children. Lion orders the other animals to build him a house, but he is proud and nothing is good enough for him.

Lazy Lion

Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division

Lazy Lion orders the animals to build him a house on the African plain. 
 The Weaver Birds build him a house of nest grasses and palm leaves, but Lazy Lion is too heavy to reach the door. The Ant Bears build him a house with many rooms and caverns, but it is so dark Lion can't see anything.
 The animals do their best to please Lion, but he is very difficult to please. Will he ever find a home?
This is the story of how Lazy Lion found his home on the great African plain.

Lazy Lion (African Animal Tales)

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Little Elephant's Walk

Little Elephant's Walk

Lend Me Your Wings

Bushbaby

Awful Aardvark

Hot Hippo (African Animal Tales)

Lend Me Your Wings

Crafty Chameleon (African Animal Tales)

Lazy Lion

Lazy Lion (African Animal Tales)