The Hovering Elephant

By Joy Bassetti-Kruger

A story for children of all ages with a strong moral ethic to it. The story is about an African witch-doctor whose favorite walking stick breaks when it gets stuck in the mud. He gets so angry about this that he says some bad swear words as he hurls the broken stick up into the air, so that once the stick lands it becomes enchanted and causes all sorts of problems in the Kingdom of Modjadgi the Rain Queen, where all the animals in the story all live.
There are no actual swear words in the story, but the message is that if you swear and think mean thoughts, you could just cause the same sort of problems to occur in your own world, which would be a terrible shame.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joy Bassetti-Kruger
• Release date: Aug 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310698996

Joy Bassetti-Kruger

I began my library career at the Jhb. public library, and while I worked there part time, I also completed my Library Exams with the SALA. Then I was headhunted by Ekom, as I'd specialized in information retrieval and they needed someone to obtain current information on various projects for their engineers. Later I moved to Control Data, where I learned all about storing such information on their large computers. All the while, I also taught ballet, modern and Spanish, dancing in my spare time, as I'd trained as a dance teacher while still at school. After I married I ran two dancing studios for adults, where I also began to teach yoga and passive exercises. In my youth I danced for PACT for a while, but as I was still studying at the time, -I decided to give this up, although I continued to dance in various productions at the Civic Theater in Johannesburg. -Showboat, The Merry Widow, Guys and Dolls, to name a few. As I'd also joined two writing circles previously, I'd been writing all along, - mostly short stories. But then an opportunity came up for me to include English Literature and Creative Writing in my studies, so this is when my writing career really took off, even though I never published anything until recently, when I first uploaded stories on a local SA site,then Kindle, Kobo and now finally that I've cracked the 'meat-gringer," I've loaded some new stories on to Smashwords, which I think is a really wonderful site for writers, as it forces us to confront all the issues and make certain that everything is correct..

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