Animal Stories

By Emily Mmaitsi

Have you ever wondered why hyena is considered the most foolish animal in the kingdom? Or why hawks eat baby chicks? Or why the fox has no friends?

This collection of animal fables will answer those questions and be an entertaining read!

Finally, hyena came to the conclusion that he couldnt decide which way to go. The smell of delicious foods and meats kept wafting in from both directions, and this confused hyena even more.

Eventually, he decided to go both waysbut how? You might wonder. Hyena put one front paw on the left-hand side of the road and one front paw on the right-hand side of the road.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496956774

Emily Mmaitsi

Emily Mmaitsi is a former English teacher who is a freelance writer of children’s books. She moved to the United States from Kenya and now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband and daughters.

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Published by AuthorHouse : 01/06/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4969-5676-7 (sc)

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Contents

Fox and Seven Girls

Hare and Hyena

Hyena Gets Foolish Again

Muhonja and Mudave

Natse

Nevalegwa Yita Imbongo The Despised One Killed an Antelope

The Hen and the Hawk

The Lioness and Her Cubs

Fox and Seven Girls

Once upon a time, there lived a fox and his family. A famine came to the land, and most animals died of starvation.

Fox was always mean, and cunning and one day he thought long and hard, and decided to play a trick on his family. He took them to the woods one at a time, killed them and came back home claiming that there had been an accident. Soon his entire family was gone and Fox became bored.

It so happened that the woods that Fox lived in had plenty of wood that humans used for fuel. Humans would send their daughters to the forest to collect firewood for cooking and warming their houses. The humans would send their daughters every afternoon before it started raining, but the girls would always get caught in a storm with nowhere to seek shelter from the rain. However, the girls always made it home, drenched to the skin but safe.

One afternoon, after gathering firewood and tying it into bundles, seven girls noticed that dark clouds were building in the sky and a big storm was moving toward them. They started hurrying home with their bundled firewood.

They were still deep in the woods when there was a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightning, and before they knew it, huge drops of rain were falling relentlessly from the sky. The girls found a small, lonely hut tucked away in the middle of some shrubs, nearly hidden by big trees and bushes. They quickly set their bundles