One day he was well. The next he had grown ill — very ill. We tried everything. We took him from one hospital to another. We prayed for him. But my baby brother grew only worse.

Then we took him to a healer.

As he had done every night of his life, the old man gazed deep into the heavens. He had spent so much time scanning the night sky that he knew every star it held. He loved the stars as if they were his children. He al

After a pleasant walk in the forest, a little hare cheerfully arrived back at the cave where her den was hidden.

“I’ll hop in,” she thought happily, “roast a few nuts for lunch, and have a peaceful nap.

Long ago, when the world was new, a severe drought hit the land of the birds. The savannah turned brown, and streams dried up. Maize plants died, and banana trees shriveled in the sun, their broad leaves wilting away.

There was once a king who considered himself the cleverest person in the world. To prove it, he issued a challenge to all the creatures who lived in his kingdom.

“No one in my kingdom is cleverer than I am!�

There once was a king who had one daughter. She was his pride and joy for this princess had the loveliest hair in the world. Every night singing maidens wove her hair into magical plaits to make it grow longer and lov

Long, long ago, Mbeku the tortoise had a magnificent shell. It was so smooth and clear and shiny, it even glowed in the dark. And because Mbeku was so handsome, he thought he deserved the lion’s share of everything,

Oli didn’t want to eat his lunch. He didn’t want to take a nap. He wanted to go bird hunting in the woods with his big brother Mbachu. His mama said. “You’re too little,” she told him.

…“When

At the foot of the baobab tree, creatures of the forest gathered to choose their king.

Sleepy Kobe, the tortoise, was the last to arrive.

“I’ll be King of the Forest,” he announced. “We need a wi

The earth was hot and barren and no one had much to eat except Ananse the Spider…and he decided to treat himself to a feast.

Ananse shut his doors and windows and sealed all the cracks in the walls of his old